Our Mirror Selves William Yang
‘Seeing and Being Seen’, William Yang’s latest project, has had a long gestation. It was first proposed by former Queensland Art Gallery /Gallery of Modern Art (QAGOMA) curator Aaron Seeto four years ago, before being picked up by another QAGOMA curator, José De Silva, who similarly moved on before the project was realised. ‘It was all in limbo’, Yang recounts, until the gallery appointed Rosie Hays, Associate Curator of Australian Cinémathèque, to oversee the exhibition. ‘Her expertise isn’t in either photography or contemporary art, but she really knows her films and so we have come to regard the project like a documentary film.’
Given Yang’s background as a documentary photographer, Hays’ appointment to
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