Provenance is So’s first major exhibition in Australia. So grew up in Melbourne after migrating from Hong Kong at a young age. Curated by Charlotte Day, the exhibition brings together more than a decade of art-making alongside new work, surfacing narratives within her evolving practice.
So’s practice is distinguished by its embrace of traditional crafts, cross-cultural thinking, underlying sense of the comedic and persistent feminist worldview. Her idiosyncratic ceramic and textile works are inspired by art history, museum collections and popular forms of gendered symbolism. While So’s early work used motifs of bearded men, full bellies and boots to explore popular archetypes and representations of (mostly) male authority, she has increasingly looked to representations of feminine forms, drawing on artistic precedents from prehistoric to modern times.
Renee So: Provenance is presented by MUMA in partnership with UNSW Galleries and will travel to Sydney from 18 August – 19 November 2022.
So’s practice is distinguished by its embrace of traditional crafts, cross-cultural thinking, underlying sense of the comedic and persistent feminist worldview. Her idiosyncratic ceramic and textile works are inspired by art history, museum collections and popular forms of gendered symbolism. While So’s early work used motifs of bearded men, full bellies and boots to explore popular archetypes and representations of (mostly) male authority, she has increasingly looked to representations of feminine forms, drawing on artistic precedents from prehistoric to modern times.
Renee So: Provenance is presented by MUMA in partnership with UNSW Galleries and will travel to Sydney from 18 August – 19 November 2022.
