16albermarle Project Space is delighted to present Home and Away as their final exhibition of 2023. Home and Away brings together eight emerging and established female artists with ancestral connections to Indonesia, Cambodia, Singapore, Mainland China, Hong Kong and Taiwan. Their practices are as diverse as their histories, encompassing painting, sculpture, porcelain, glass, textiles, photography and digital media, video, performance, and a contemporary reinvention of papercutting. Despite this diversity their work is connected by a common thread – they explore the elusive nature of ‘home’ from the perspective of the diasporic experience. What does it mean to live and work in many places, yet sense that ‘home’ is, somehow, always elsewhere? How does our increasing awareness of the fragility of our planet change our ideas about home? In our re-opening post-pandemic world artists are restlessly global beings who travel for study, residencies and exhibitions. When you have multiple homes, where do you belong? Themes of memory, nostalgia, family, heritage and culture are examined in different ways through the eyes of artists who straddle two – or more – worlds. Curated by Dr Luise Guest and Jennifer Yang Shoufay Derz, Ritual of eels: Loving the alien, ongoing series since 2019, pigment print on Fine art gloss paper, 71.6 x 91.1 cm