Owen Leong
#Photographe
- Exposition
Birthmark - Owen Leong
The artist Owen Leong has seen the miraculous Bogong and fallen under its spell, perceiving in its tawny wings the substance of a sumptuous guise. His concern, being the product of his Asian-Australian heritage, is integration within Australia, and therefore aligns itself quite naturally with the invasive migratory moth. For sadly, though we might be loathe to admit it, the spectre of the 'yellow peril' that species so derisively invoked in parliament, is hoisted even today on the national flagpole, rattling the pale-skinned locals as a means of capturing political allegiance.
Owen Leong's subjects, young people of Asian descent, who appear so mysteriously in his photographs, are all marked with the effigy of this and other bark-hued moths, the wings of the creatures poised across their brows like masks at the Venetia...
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The artist Owen Leong has seen the miraculous Bogong and fallen under its spell, perceiving in its tawny wings the substance of a sumptuous guise. His concern, being the product of his Asian-Australian heritage, is integration within Australia, and therefore aligns itself quite naturally with the invasive migratory moth. For sadly, though we might be loathe to admit it, the spectre of the 'yellow peril' that species so derisively invoked in parliament, is hoisted even today on the national flagpole, rattling the pale-skinned locals as a means of capturing political allegiance.
Owen Leong's subjects, young people of Asian descent, who appear so mysteriously in his photographs, are all marked with the effigy of this and other bark-hued moths, the wings of the creatures poised across their brows like masks at the Venetia...