Anney Bounpraseuth: You Are With Me in Paradise

Image: Anney Bounpraseuth, You Are With Me in Paradise, acrylic on board, 2019. Photo by Simon Hewson​

In this exhibition, Bounpraseuth explores the search for meaning from the remains of trauma and grief. Bounpraseuth's art practice is a ongoing re-processing of the loss of a once meaningful faith and most recently, the passing of her dear mother. The title of the exhibition plays with the tense of a Biblical scripture found in Luke 23:43, reflecting the artist's shift from a future focused spiritual outlook, to a new personal philosophy based on Mindfulness meditation's principle of being in the present.

Anney Bounpraseuth is an Australian-born artist of Laotian heritage. Bounpraseuth's art practice reinterprets the matriarchal traditions passed down to her through painting, textiles and craft methodologies, as a way of asserting self-determined identity. After leaving a strict religious faith of many years, Bounpraseuth's current work shifts representations of Paradise into the present, in order to visualise a spiritually meaningful life in an irreligious context. Bounpraseuth often uses reconfigured fabric remnants in paintings and textile works that function as both a literal and symbolically reparative reconstruction of identity.

This exhibition is presented in celebration of International Women's Day.

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