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Artist Lindy Lee: ‘Anybody who has to declare they belong, doesn’t belong’ – The Guardian
As her new exhibition opens at the Museum of Contemporary Art, the artist reflects on decades of trying to come to terms with her identity
For decades, Brisbane-born artist Lindy Lee wanted to be anything other than Chinese.
Her late father, who had a backyard factory making cheap furniture, believed that once his family stepped outside their house they had to be whiter than white, the artist recalls. It was an attitude she internalised and which came to a head in 1988, Australias bicentennial year, when everybody was considering Australian art and culture, what the hell that is. Lee was asked to talk about her art on a panel at a…
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