Mother Tongue

An exhibition at the Art Gallery of Burlington
Curator: Jasmine Mander
May 7 - August 6, 2022

Documentation:
Art Gallery of Burlington, 2022
Photo credit: Jimmy Limit

Mother Tongue explores the widening gap of lost cultural knowledge between generations. Inspired by food-related cultural and familial stories, it has a series of papercuts embedded in a series of murals, as well as an audio component voiced by my parents and an accompanying takeaway

View the Mother Tongue exhibition page for the full exhibition description and audio stories

Mother tongue | takeaway

Document with exhibition information, descriptions of the Morsels paper cut series, illustrated stories to accompany the audio components voiced by my parents (The Origin of the Three-Striped Crab & The Legend of the Pineapple) and recipes

listen to two tales

A QR code that leads to 2 stories voiced by my parents: The Origin of the Three-Striped Crab (English) & The Legend of the Pineapple (Vietnamese). These stories are illustrated, retold and translated in the takeaway.