Event

Eugenia Lim: The Ambassador Exhibition Opening

A production still from Eugenia Lim's The Australian Ugliness, depicting her raised leg as she sits between yellow slabs.

When

Friday, 20 November 2020, 6:00am

Location

Coffs Harbour Regional Gallery

Cnr Coff &, Duke St, Coffs Harbour NSW 2450

Eugenia Lim is an Australian artist of Chinese–Singaporean descent who works across video, performance and installation. In her work, Lim transforms herself into invented fictional personas who traverse through time and cultures to explore how national identities and stereotypes cut, divide and bond our globalised world.

This 4A Centre for Contemporary Asian Art and Museums & Galleries of NSW (M&G NSW) initiated touring project presents Lim’s most recent body of work, The Ambassador seriesIn this three-part project, Lim takes on a Mao-like persona who sits halfway between truth and fantasy –  dressed in a gold lamé suit and matching bowl haircut. Throughout each of her works, the Ambassador takes on new roles in uncovering the Australian-Asian narrative – drilling down into racial politics, the social costs of manufacturing and the role of architecture in shaping society.

Top image: Eugenia Lim, The Australian Ugliness [production still], 2018, three-channel video installation with six-channel audio, 33:58 loop, installation design by WOWOWA; image: Tom Ross; courtesy the artist.

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