12 JULY - 5 AUGUST
BACK GALLERY

MING LIEW
HOW WILL I REMEMBER

How Will I Remember is an essay film exploring my Chinese-Australian bi-cultural identity in relation to loss, grief and image-making. It's based on my lived experience as a first-generation Chinese immigrant, depicting fragments of my memories as I detach from my ethnic past and embrace my Australian future. It employs a novel methodology that augments moving-image art with auto-ethnography, by utilising diptych moving images, appropriated footage, bilingual voiceover and intertitles, this film renders a fractured narrative that oscillates between fact and fiction, past and present, personal and social. It examines the hidden associations between image-making and identity formation to cultivate new insights into the migrant experience in contemporary Australia. It advocates for social change through artistic language that transcends linguistic, cultural and social barriers.

Ming Liew is an emerging lens-based artist based in Naarm (Melbourne). Ming's practice draws upon his Chinese-Australian bicultural identity, combining ethnography and visual storytelling to examine the migrant experience in contemporary Australia. Ming uses his work to advocate for social change through cultural understanding that transcends linguistic, cultural, and social barriers.

Ming holds a Master of Fine Art from the Royal Melbourne Institute of Technology. He has exhibited in group and solo exhibitions in Melbourne since 2022, including at Bunjil Place, Blindside, and Testing Grounds. He has been recognized with various awards such as the NAVA Ignition Prize and the RMIT Dean's Awards for Academic Excellence. Currently, Ming is a resident at the RMIT + ACMI X graduate residency program.

Photography: Brianna Speight