monica trieu
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fine artist + tattooist
sydney based

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body of work soft are hazy memories, like that surrounding rising planes, and gas of cars out of driveways
bring this to auntie
to never really truly know, to never really truly see the face of what we bury
chopsticks and spoons fall to the beat of temple drums
when will we next see this warm place
my memories were made 20 years ago in the hands and feet of my mum
In a distant land...
thank you!
The unseen casualties2024

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2024bring this to auntie looks at traces of migrant and ethnic acts of community building in private garden spaces. The series stems from traditional Chinese folktale ‘The Spider and the Silkworm’, which narrates a conversation between a spider and a silkworm discussing their reasons to spin silk. The spider spins its web to kill and feed, and the silkworm does so to produce beauty despite its sacrifice. Making reference to this, I draw parallels between the silkworms and my dad’s garden.

The work depicts the process of growth and harvest in my dad’s garden and the sharing of his harvests as a mode of collaborative survival. I focus on the narratives following the chilies and pumpkins we grow, and its route to being made into chili oil and pumpkin soup. Playing with motifs of map routes, topographical structures, plant roots, mulberry leaves, spider webs, silkworms and silk, I explore the connection between land, labour, and collective growth.


Translation:
‘yellow and white’

‘flesh spun like silk in the garden weaved with generous hands’

Matterhood group exhibition
Stanley Street Gallery, in partnership with Kudos Gallery, UNSW Arc & Clare Milledge lfp_Gardens