Space: Outer and Personal
Sarah Ujmaia
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Ujmaia’s practice is ultimately a “lexicon of constellations,” utilising found images, ephemera, borrowed words, flora, and graphite drawings as a means of understanding immediate surroundings and distant places. She predominantly employs the process of drawing to help her interrogate spaces that are both familiar and foreign. Her current show addresses intimacy, vastness, and a fading ancestry: exploring the dichotomy and tension that exists interpersonally for an individual that has undergone assimilation.
Ujmaia’s practice is ultimately a “lexicon of constellations,” utilising found images, ephemera, borrowed words, flora, and graphite drawings as a means of understanding immediate surroundings and distant places. She predominantly employs the process of drawing to help her interrogate spaces that are both familiar and foreign. Her current show addresses intimacy, vastness, and a fading ancestry: exploring the dichotomy and tension that exists interpersonally for an individual that has undergone assimilation.
Sarah Ujmaia
Sarah Ujmaia (b.1995) is a first generation Chaldean artist living and working on unceded Wurundjeri lands. Her practice is largely informed by the wide-reaching impacts of forced displacement and cultural re-writing related to the diasporic experience. Applying translational processes, she regenerates motifs, images and linguistic structures in her material-led approach to object making.