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Trompe-l’œil brings together six artists from four countries working across trajectories that are both personal and universal, including Adeela Suleman (b. 1970, Karachi, Pakistan), Arslan Farooqi (b. 1992, Faisalabad, Pakistan), Georgina Cue (b. 1987, Melbourne, Australia), Heo Subin (b. 1975, Busan, Korea), Kai Wasikowski (b. 1992, Canberra, Australia) and Yang Yongliang (b. 1980, Shanghai, China). The exhibition is curated by Dr. Mikala Tai, Director of 4A Centre for Contemporary Asian Art, Sydney.

“There is something unnerving about a trompe-l’œil. Such trickery of perspective ruptures the trust we place in our vision, our eyes onto the world. Our ability to perceive reality and discern truth is questioned the moment our eye is deceived. No longer able to trust our observations the once taut veneer of actuality suddenly appears fragile. In this moment the peculiarities of contradictions allow new perspectives to emerge and we are, briefly, able to look at the everyday anew.

Trompe-l’œil brings together six artists from across Asia and Australia who seek to reimagine understandings and expectations. Their works, although diverse, all use artistic techniques to recast our readings of the everyday. Through holographic shifts, tessellated shadows and unexpected flickers the works reveal alternative futures and dark realities. With the comfort of expectation lost the viewer is invited to consider, in that moment of rupture, the expanded possibilities of new perspectives.” – DR. MIKALA TAI, 2018