You probably know this by now, but on the 20th of most months we go on a field trip to a different museum or gallery around Sydney. This month we went to the Chau Chak Wing Museum, which is located on the beautiful University of Sydney campus.
We first got an introduction to the museum, which to my surprise, was much bigger than I’d anticipated. Then we were introduced to Shuxia and Julian, who were the curators of the exhibition that we were there to view – Sentient Paper.
Sentient Paper celebrates paper in China as an ancient enlightening technology, an embodiment of knowledge, a vehicle for political and philosophical ideologies, as well as an expressive artistic medium.
And boy, did we see all of that in our tour. For example, these pictures that inspire us to travel, and to think about so-called Australia.
Or these very intricated pictures where public and private spaces are placed alongside each other.
