ESSAY | Sriwhana Spong: A State of Unknowing
It was back in 2011 that Pip Wallis, senior curator at the Monash University Museum of Art (MUMA), remembers first seeing the work of Balinese New Zealand filmmaker, sculptor, and performance artist Sriwhana Spong in a gallery in Melbourne. At that time Spong was an emerging artist and Wallis was so struck by Spong’s art […]
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