BYPRODUCTS II

Anie Nheu

16 October - 8 November 2026, Platform
Exhibition opening: Thursday 15 October 2026, 6pm

This exhibition examines the use of found materials through their physical properties and phenomenological presence as a means of interrogating the notion that no place is ever inherently “right” in the context of identity of a displaced body.

Metaphor operates as the primary analytical framework through which the works are read. It is embedded in both material selection and the processes of making and resolution: the identity of materials; the methods by which they are shaped, cut, and assembled; and the ways in which disparate elements are juxtaposed and brought into relation. These considerations, in conjunction with the materials’ physical weight and their negotiation of balance, produce compositions that function as metaphors for belonging, specifically, not as a fixed condition, but as a contingent and continually negotiated state.

Image: Anie Nheu, Props, 2026. Installation with bamboos, eucalyptus and white cedar branches, plasters, basalt shales and ropes. Photograph by Tina FiveAsh.