Zhou Yan Contemporary Chinese Art Archive 周彦当代中国艺术档案
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Date
1994
Format
Slide
Exhibition Event Title
The Great War of the Eggplant and Sausage
Date of Exhibition Event
1994
Location of Exhibition Event
Australian National University Drill Hall Gallery, Canberra
Materials
Acrylic on canvas
Dimensions
126 x 550 cm
Description
In this work, GUAN Wei conjured several animated figures of "eggplants", and captured them in a plot of colonialism and settlement. GUAN Wei wishes to borrow the power of whimsical animation to communicate a different settlement history of Australia, of "what might actually have happened". (Tseng, Friends of the Australian Tapestry Workshop’s Lecture Series: Guan Wei, February 28, 2018, Australian Critical Race and Whiteness Studies Association, available on https://acrawsa.org.au/2018/02/28/friends-of-the-australian-tapestry-workshops-lecture-series-guan-wei/) (Jose, Catalogue: FANTASTIC COSMOGRAPHIES, 2006, CONTEMPORARY ART CENTRE OF SOUTH AUSTRALIA, available through http://www.jurn.org/ejournal/catalogue.pdf) (Jerry Wu'23).
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