Lonely God
Aida Azin
7
February 2019
7
February
2019
1
March 2019
Gallery 1
Do you remember the time When we fell in love Do you remember the time When we first met girl Do you remember the time When we fell in love Do you remember the time Lonely God is an exhibition that affectionately revels in memories of the artists recent trip to her mother’s birth country, the Philippines. Lonely God shuffles mischievously through cherished mementos to make peace with fragmented identity. This body of work represents a divergence from the weighted feelings that have characterised Azin’s ongoing practice. By subverting the heaviness that characterises the politics of race, she investigates the potential for recovery from guilt, shame and isolation, and expands into the lightness of multiplicity.
Do you remember the time When we fell in love Do you remember the time When we first met girl Do you remember the time When we fell in love Do you remember the time Lonely God is an exhibition that affectionately revels in memories of the artists recent trip to her mother’s birth country, the Philippines. Lonely God shuffles mischievously through cherished mementos to make peace with fragmented identity. This body of work represents a divergence from the weighted feelings that have characterised Azin’s ongoing practice. By subverting the heaviness that characterises the politics of race, she investigates the potential for recovery from guilt, shame and isolation, and expands into the lightness of multiplicity.
Aida Azin
Aida Azin Artist Aida Azin is a painter, art facilitator and community organiser based in Melbourne on the land of the Wurundjeri and the Boon Wurrung people. Born to Iranian/Filipina parents and raised in an Australian context, her practice advocates for conversations about shame as a failing political tool, first-generation migrant guilt, racism, Whiteness, dreams, identity, food, and culture. Aida is a collaborating artist and organiser in Saluhan collective, an ongoing art project that fosters connections between artists within the Philippines and artists within Filipinx diasporas across Australia.Her visual art has been shown in galleries such as Fontanelle Gallery (SA), Format (SA), Blak Dot (VIC), Seventh Gallery (VIC), Project 20 (the Philippines), First Draft Gallery (NSW), FELT Space (SA), Ace Open (SA), ArtsHouse (VIC), Bus Projects (VIC), Blindside (VIC), and Nexus Gallery (SA).She has a Bachelor's Degree in Visual Art from the Adelaide College of the Arts (2015). In 2017 Aida completed her honours year in painting at the University of South Australia where the outcome of her research on the effects of institutional racism in the visual arts resulted in the artwork ‘Brown Pillars’.