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, 2023
ACE Gallery, Adelaide, 2022