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Sun Xun

by Sun Xun, Anna Davis, Hou Hanru

This exhibition features stop-motion animations, charcoal drawings and woodcuts exploring official narratives and marginalised experiences. It includes hand-drawn films, paper sculptures and site-specific works from the artist's first solo exhibition in Australia.

Accession 14853 ISBN 9781921034961 Publisher Museum of Contemporary Art (Sydney, NSW)
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