Bringing 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, Kien Situ creates an environment of rupture and reincarnation.
Titanium needles and planes puncture the gallery like acupuncture points or tools of extraction. Ink flows across painted surfaces. Metal catches and refracts faint light. Sculptures made from cast ink – a signature of Situ’s past work – appear toppled, shattered, pierced. These are not static objects but shifting states: broken, reassembled, and suspended within a cycle of destruction and transformation.
Australian Centre on China in the World
Until 15 November 2025
Australian Capital Territory
Kien Situ, artwork detail, 2025
Courtesy the artist and Australian Centre on China in the World, Australian Capital Territory
