Cristea Nian Zhao
My home is on a Swamp (the Practice of Belonging and Un-belonging)
Trocadero presents Cristea Nian Zhao’s My home is on a Swamp (the Practice of Belonging and Un-belonging).
My home is on a Swamp (the Practice of Belonging and Un-belonging) is a research-based project that combines video, still images and a personal written narrative. Challenging the notion of ‘home’ and ‘belongingness’, Cristea Zhao’s provokes a psychological process of reclaiming the past, while searching for what is not there and calling for those who cannot answer.
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Cristea Nian Zhao has a background in film. She has written and directed several narrative short films and documentaries. Since immigrating to Australia in 2018, her practice has expanded into performance, video installation and text-based work. Language, spoken narrative and shared listening are crucial to her practice. Her interest is in unearthing various forms of loss from personal history and collective memory. The possibility/impossibility of mourning and reconciliation frequently lies beneath her works. Zhao recently graduated from RMIT with a Masters in Fine Arts.
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