Skin Shade Night Day
4-Channel video and 12-channel sound installation with shade cloth, rope, fishing wire and coconut coir.
Skin Shade Night Day explores the daily routine and rituals practised by the artist’s Cambodian-Australian family, which are reperformed and documented through a process of embodied empathy. Acts of service, such as gardening and cooking, play out as echoes from the past across a sound and image installation displayed in a shadehouse. Spectres, shadows and aural textures conjure up impressions of a place that remembers how its inhabitants once lived.
Artist/Director: Allison Chhorn
Producer: Chris Luscri & Anastasia Comelli
Sound Design: Josh Peters
Exhibitions:
The National 4, Museum of Contemporary Art Australia (MCA), Sydney (2023)
ACE Gallery, Adelaide (2022)
Porter Street Commission at ACE Gallery, Adelaide, Australia.
Supported by the Government of South Australia (Arts SA)