4A Centre for Contemporary Asian Art // 2023

‘Soft Touch’ an exhibition where fashion, performance, and movement converged to challenge stereotypes and empower self-expression. Sook Studio worked in close conversation with movement artist Davina Chor, designing a garment that evolved and unravelled throughout the performance. A multi-disciplinary 'runway' event, where two 2nd generation Chinese, queer and trans artists explored and uncovered the layers of their artistry in tandem.

Soft Touch // Pattern & Perception

In-between The Foliage

Greenway Art Prize // White Bay Power Station 2024

‘In-between the Foliage’. A collaborative performance exhibition that explored camouflage, inspired by the survival strategies of insects that blend seamlessly with their environments. In conversation with movement artist Risako Katsumata, the dialogue extends from garment and environment through to performance. Together, we explored how the wearer can engage with their surroundings in ways that echo the camouflaging strategies of insects. This performance piece moved and weaved through the audience, it invited viewers to consider the garment not only as a static object but as a living extension of the environment, capable of shifting and adapting in real time.

Thankyou Body

All Day Queer Dance // 2024

‘Thankyou body’, a pop-up installation at Gadigal’s most sacred queer dance party. Paying homage to queer bodies. These precious flesh sacks that hold us, carry us and continually choose to shape shift. Made from fused stockings, stuffed with fabric scraps and recycled wool. ‘Thankyou Body’ was exhibited 4 separate times, each time different from the last, creating a new immersive portal each time in celebration of our bodies, on the queer sacred space that is a dance floor.

Burn The Ones I Love

The Bearded Tit // Death & Becoming // 2023

‘Burn The Ones I Love” was my reconceptualising of the traditional paper burning ceremony that takes place in Chinese cultures to commemorate someone's passing. Paper money/Joss paper and items shaped in your ancestors favourite things are burned as an offering. Ensuring they are prosperous in the afterlife. In this exhibition I explored the question - ‘If I have no intentions of reproducing in this lifetime, who will be left to honour me and my culture when I inevitably retire from this physical vessel?’ ‘If I were to die today, what would I really want in the afterlife with me?’ I created two textiles based murals, completely wearable, displayed at the Bearded Tit for 5 weeks, as apart of ‘The Death and Becoming Exhibition’