Gardening to the Dark
Jing Liang, Minh-An Pham, Adrian J. Song
30 Jul–23 Aug 2025
Just because you can’t describe a feeling doesn’t mean you don’t know how it feels.
Inspired by south-east asian folklore, spirituality and mysticism, this collaborative installation attempts to reframe the incomprehensible experiences of ‘knowing’ as potentially generative encounters.
In Tibetan Buddhist traditions, sacred knowledge is said to be concealed within the essence of a physical object. What these objects trigger within a human being often equates to a sense of knowing, as opposed to existing in any tangible form or language.
In Gardening to the Dark, Jing Liang, Minh-An Pham and Adrian Jing Song reframe familial silences as potentially generative encounters. Drawing on personal narratives and south-east asian mythology, this collaborative installation invites viewers to reflect on the subtle tensions and dynamics that exist within these unspoken histories.
Jing Liang, Minh-An Pham and Adrian Jing Song reframe familial silences as potentially generative encounters. Drawing on personal narratives and south-east asian mythology, this collaborative installation invites viewers to reflect on the subtle tensions and dynamics that exist within these unspoken histories.
This program takes place on the land of the Wurundjeri people of the Kulin Nation. We recognise that sovereignty was never ceded - this land is stolen land. We pay respects to Wurundjeri Elders, past, present and emerging, to the Elders from other communities and to any other Aboriginal or Torres Strait Islanders who might encounter or participate in the program.
Jing Liang is an artist based in Naarm (Melbourne) and a research
candidate in RMIT University. Her artistic practice revolves around a
methodology of experimenting with materials and body movement. This
approach is situated within the contexts of socio-political considerations,
with a particular emphasis on gender and cultural identity. Utilising a
diverse range of materials, Liang employs a feminist critique to examine
and question the structure within everyday lives. The emotional
resonance of the interactions with materials and the repetition in bodily
rhythm are investigated through experiments in various spatial settings.
These endeavours present novel avenues for delving into feminist
explorations.
Minh-An Pham is a Vietnamese artist based from Sai Gon, currently living and studying in Australia. He uses photography as the main means to express his ego. An’s photography practice revolves around themes of family, queer love, and the delicate relationship between dream and reality. With the curiosity to rummage through his feelings, he seeks answers for the correlation between emptiness, dreams in reality and emotions hidden by himself and the people around him.
Adrian J. Song Adrian Jing Song was born in Shah Alam and currently lives in Naarm, on the unceded land of the
Wurundjeri and Boon Wurrung people of the Kulin nation.