Hannah Luk-Finucane is a Cantonese/ ‘Australian’ artist based in Naarm (Melbourne). Working reflexively, their practice explores layered diasporic experiences, studies of the body and memory. Through their practice, they are working to create spaces of ritual intimacy, intended to foster care and community. Hannah continues to investigate methods of decentring whiteness in visual language and developing culturally inscribed means of communicating experiences.
OBJECTS OF CARE
Objects of Care is a series of works stemming from my explorations on developing a language adept in communicating experiences of hybridity. I query the relationship between body and object, considering whose body it is and where that body has arrived from. For diasporic bodies where does the sense of otherness acquits? Is the longing to return to an unplaceable homeland purely a feeling of fantasy or a feeling that can be satiated through connection and care for others?
Grounded in Chinese traditional medicine, Objects of Care builds its vocabulary from these care and nourishment-based rituals, creating an encoded symbol system. It is within this context of reorienting meaning through ritual that these stories are nurtured, and spaces of cultural intimacy are formed.
Objects of Care is a personal and embodied process of relearning and reclaiming. Working with traditions I grew up practicing with my mother. I appreciate these rituals not only as personal ceremonies but also as a way to encode a collective experience, to create space within the third space that we occupy.
