LEGACIES x May Adadol Ingawanij

In connection with May Adadol Ingawanij's contribution to the 2024 Sydney Asian Art Series, the Art Gallery of NSW presents a screening of five new moving images new moving image works by Edith Amituanai, Martin Sagadin, Ukrit Sa-nguanhai, Pati Tyrell and Sriwhana Spong. 

Each of these works was produced in response to a set of propositions posed by curator May Adadol Ingawanij:

'What does a legacy taste, smell, sound, feel, or look like? What do we do with the legacies that make us? How do they hold us back? How do we go forward with the full force of the past? Legacies are things that we carry with our bodies, sometimes with pride and sometimes with shame, our emotional textures and our baggage, the basis of social bonding, an ancestral land, an enduring pain, a burden, some kind of ghost, an invitation into futurist kinship, stories for future making.’

Entitled LEGACIES, this set of films was first presented as a partnership between Storage Art Space, in Bangkok, Thailand and CIRCUIT in Wellington, Aotearoa New Zealand in 2023. The program is CIRCUIT’s seventh annual series of artist cinema commissions.

The Sydney Asian Art Series convened by Olivier Krischer and Yvonne Low, co-presented by the Power Institute and VisAsia at the Art Gallery of NSW. This screening forms part of Projections, a series at the Art Gallery of NSW that explores new directions in cinema, curated by Ruby Arrowsmith-Todd and EO Gill. 

More about the Projections Series