Until We Meet Again 鈥 喔堗笝喔佮抚喙堗覆喙喔`覆喔堗赴喔炧笟喔佮副喔權腑喔掂竵 is a dialogue between
Helen Grace and
Phaptawan Suwannakudt, charting shifts in gender roles across cultures 鈥 Australia, Thailand and Hong Kong 鈥 over a period of fifty years. Narrated through personal chronicles of historical moments, the exhibition traces their displacements through sounds, images, interwoven objects and experiences. The artists construct an extensive installation 鈥 sculpture, video installation and memory traces. Serendipity and synchronicity guide their real and imagined intersections as they explore the times and spaces that have shaped them.
The artists have each lived through wars and motherhood 鈥 destruction and creation 鈥 and in their connection, they sense a kind of predestination to collaborate on the exhibition that embodies these intertwined journeys. The work draws partly on their spatial experiences and partly on the stories of these moments in their lives: world histories and regional histories, across Thailand, Australia, Hong Kong, Vietnam, and Cambodia 鈥 places that opened to one another during this period, reorienting the world. A dream of borderless worlds comes into view, just before fear and darkness begin to obscure the openness they seek. This historical and panoramic narrative is realised through an expansive spatial composition 鈥 an arrangement of video screens and folding screens which are central elements in their shared artistic languages.