{"id":49139,"date":"2016-09-18T22:23:43","date_gmt":"2016-09-18T22:23:43","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.mixedracestudies.org\/?p=49139"},"modified":"2016-09-18T23:52:25","modified_gmt":"2016-09-18T23:52:25","slug":"damien-shen-on-the-fabric-of-the-ngarrindjeri-body","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/?p=49139","title":{"rendered":"Damien Shen: On the Fabric of the Ngarrindjeri\u00a0Body"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.kluge-ruhe.org\/exhibits\/\" target=\"_blank\"><em><strong>Damien Shen: On the Fabric of the Ngarrindjeri\u00a0Body<\/strong><\/em><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.kluge-ruhe.org\" target=\"_blank\">Kluge-Ruhe Aboriginal Art Collection of the University of Virginia<\/a><br \/>\n400 Worrell Drive<br \/>\nPeter Jefferson Place<br \/>\nCharlottesville, Virginia 22911<br \/>\nSeptember 2016<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.kluge-ruhe.org\/exhibits\/\" target=\"_blank\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.kluge-ruhe.org\/images\/426t.jpg\" width=\"350\" border=\"0\" \/><\/a><br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/damienshen.com\/\" target=\"_blank\"><em><small>Damien Shen<\/small><\/em><\/a><\/p>\n<p><em>The only museum in the United States dedicated to the exhibition and study of <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Aboriginal_Australians\" target=\"_blank\">Australian Aboriginal<\/a> Art<\/em><\/p>\n<p><strong>September 9 \u2013 December 18, 2016<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><em>On the Fabric of the Ngarrindjeri Body<\/em> is an exhibition of drawings, prints and photographs by artist <a href=\"http:\/\/damienshen.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">Damien Shen<\/a> (<a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Ngarrindjeri\" target=\"_blank\">Ngarrindjeri<\/a>, Chinese). Shen began unearthing stories of his Aboriginal ancestry after the death of his grandmother. While researching historical records, he discovered that the skeletal remains of more than 500 Ngarrindjeri people had been stolen by an Australian coroner and sent to a scientist in <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Scotland\" target=\"_blank\">Scotland<\/a> for the purpose of <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Comparative_anatomy\" target=\"_blank\">comparative anatomy<\/a>. Shen has drawn portraits of both men, along with that of Boorborrowie, a Ngarriindjeri man whose remains were later repatriated to <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Australia\" target=\"_blank\">Australia<\/a>. Through these works, Shen exposes this buried history and questions the acclaim given to men of science.<\/p>\n<p>Believing that the removal and scientific analysis of human remains divorces the body from its spirit, Shen uses his art practice to \u201creintroduce the spirit.\u201d The exhibition takes its title from an etching in which Shen has superimposed customary Ngarrindjeri body paint designs onto a figure drawn in the style of 16th century European anatomical drawings. In drawing these designs, which are also shown in the photographs of Shen being painted for the first time, the artist celebrates the unity of the spirit and body in Ngarrindjeri culture&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>For more information, click <a href=\"http:\/\/www.kluge-ruhe.org\/exhibits\/\" target=\"_blank\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Damien Shen: On the Fabric of the Ngarrindjeri\u00a0Body Kluge-Ruhe Aboriginal Art Collection of the University of Virginia 400 Worrell Drive Peter Jefferson Place Charlottesville, Virginia 22911 September 2016 Damien Shen The only museum in the United States dedicated to the exhibition and study of Australian Aboriginal Art September 9 \u2013 December 18, 2016 On the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12,24,16,13,8,4405],"tags":[986,24984,25005,25004,25003],"class_list":["post-49139","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-articles","category-arts","category-asia","category-liveevents","category-media-archive","category-oceania","tag-australia","tag-damien-shen","tag-kluge-ruhe-aboriginal-art-collection","tag-kluge-ruhe-aboriginal-art-collection-of-the-university-of-virginia","tag-ngarrindjeri"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/49139","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=49139"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/49139\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":49144,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/49139\/revisions\/49144"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=49139"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=49139"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=49139"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}