Kennedy Town Smithfield Road | No Man's Land

Description

HART HAUS is pleased to present “No Man’s Land”, Marian Ang’s solo show showcasing works created in the HART Studio Programme within the past year.

Fragments of stories from the Chinese diaspora about women and motherhood are intertwined with disconnected markers of reality: antique jewel boxes, faded travel souvenirs, cheaply printed lunar calendars, ancient and mass-produced ceramics, worn-out baby shoes.

Displaced over several generations of women who migrated around the world over the past century, these dislocated objects have become evidence of lives lived in unfamiliar places - homes made, traditions carefully preserved, and buried frameworks of thinking that persist even centuries later.

Reconstructing these broken threads into narratives of the existential search for luck and fortune amongst the Chinese diaspora, Ang creates new systems of identity and belonging.