Artist Talk - Jacky Cheng

Hear artist Jacky Cheng in conversation with exhibition curatorium member Zali Morgan.

The talk will discuss Jacky’s commissioned installation work Imaginary Homelands (2025) inspired by her own Malyasian-Chinese ancestry and the Paifang (牌坊), a form of traditional Chinese architecture which symbolically allows a person to pass from the mundane to the sacred in a liminal space. Cheng draws on the symbolism of the gate, as both a transitory space suggestive of travel or migration, and a structure that regulates movement to either welcome or exclude, offering passage and protection.