when: 29 July 2025 - 14 November 2025 | venue: CIW Gallery | cost: See event for details | address: Fellows Lane Acton 2601 | website: https://ciw.anu.edu.au
published: 04 Aug 2025, 5 min read
In '金 (Metal)', artist Kien Situ transforms the CIW gallery into a striking environment of rupture and reincarnation. The installation brings together Chinese ink, cement, titanium, and incense ash collected from Taoist temple censers in New South Wales, alongside fragments of the artist's earlier works. These materials come together in a suspended, charged space—where opposing forces collide and new forms emerge.
Kien Situ (b.1990) is an architectonic artist whose practice spans sculpture and space. Informed by his diasporic heritage at the juncture of contemporary global cultural theory with ancient Sinospheric philosophy, he explores matter, ruin, distance, numerology, and time in relation to cultural dislocation.
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In '金 (Metal)', artist Kien Situ transforms the CIW gallery into a striking environment of rupture and reincarnation. The installation brings together Chinese ink, cement, titanium, and incense ash collected from Taoist temple censers in New South Wales, alongside fragments of the artist's earlier works. These materials come together in a suspended, charged space—where opposing forces collide and new forms emerge.
Kien Situ (b.1990) is an architectonic artist whose practice spans sculpture and space. Informed by his diasporic heritage at the juncture of contemporary global cultural theory with ancient Sinospheric philosophy, he explores matter, ruin, distance, numerology, and time in relation to cultural dislocation.
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金 (Metal) Exhibition 2025 is on 29 July 2025 - 14 November 2025. The opening hours are: See event website for details. Conveniently located in Acton. Call 02 6125 9267 for details. Visit their website at https://ciw.anu.edu.au.
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