Lia Incognita (now Jinghua Qian) / by Deborah Kelly and collaborators.

  • Kelly, Deborah, 1962-
Date:
2014
Reference:
3198521i
Part of:
No human being is illegal (in all our glory), 2014-2019.
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Lia Incognita (now Jinghua Qian) / by Deborah Kelly and collaborators. Attribution-NonCommercial 4.0 International (CC BY-NC 4.0). Source: Wellcome Collection.

About this work

Also known as

Lia Incognita (now Jinghua Qian) from No Human Being Is Illegal (in all our glory). Collaged photograph by Deborah Kelly and collaborators, 2014-2018.

Publication/Creation

2014.

Physical description

1 collage : colour photographic print on aluminum, mixed media collage ; 210 x 109 cm

Notes

One in a series of 20 life-sized collaborative photographic portraits originally commissioned for the 19th Biennale of Sydney 'You Imagine What You Desire', held 21 Mar 2014 - 9 Jun 2014.
Jinghua Qian "is a Shanghai-born, Melbourne-based cultural commentator, media maker and poet-provocateur whose work focuses on marginalisation and resistance. Ey interrogate the power of unbelonging - as an immigrant in a settler-colonial state, as a gender-fluid body seen through binary vision."--From artist's notes on subjects.
This portrait comes from a series created collaboratively in open workshops over many months. Participants collaged each image to reflect the subject’s identity, concerns, dreams or life story. Born in Shanghai, China and based in Melbourne, Australia, Jinghua Qian’s portrait responds to their identity as a writer and poet. In Jinghua’s words, their work explores “the power of ‘unbelonging’, as an immigrant in a settler-colonial society and a shapeshifter in a binary-gendered world”.-- from gallery text in Being Human at Wellcome Collection.
Title supplied by artist.

Exhibitions note

Exhibited at the 19th Biennale of Sydney 'You Imagine What You Desire', 21 March 2014 - 9 June 2014.
Exhibited in an Australian touring exhibition 'No Human Being Is Illegal (in all our glory)', 2015 - 2018.
Currently on display in 'Being Human', Wellcome Collection, 25 September 2023 onwards

Reference

Wellcome Collection 3198521i

Ownership note

Purchased by Wellcome Collection in 2019

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