Mirrored Worlds / 鏡像世界

A collaborative digital art exhibition between Macau University of Science and Technology, Faculty of Humanities and Arts (MUST), Macau and RMIT University (RMIT) School of Art, Melbourne

Museum of Chinese-Australian History, 22 Cohen Lane
Macau, October 2024
Melbourne, May 2025
Opened by Mr Paul Lai, President, Australia Macau Chamber of Commerce Inc. 

Featured artists:

Jasmin Seale, Holly Durant, Celline Marge Mercado, Elizabeth Cole, Hui Yang, Zina Sofer, Beatriz Yu, Na Mi, Xiao Hui Hu, Zhuolin Chen, Chao Feng Ning, Zhen Li, Lan Lan, Wen Li, Minying Zhang, Hai Ying Liang, Jia Ying Yang, Wei Wei Huang and Chu Jun Peng.

Mirrored Worlds is an exhibition of contemporary image making, featuring works by photographers and video artists whose work is in dialogue with urban cultural appropriation in place.  The exhibition opened in October 2024 at the Macau University of Science and Technology Art Gallery and now is being launched here in Melbourne. The exhibition explores the mirroring of diverse cultures in the cities of Macau and Melbourne and is a conversation about appropriation between the two cities. 

Taking inspiration from Macau’s diverse and bizarre urban landscape, a city that is not one place, but ‘every place’ a result of the city’s ambition to become a hub for leisure and entertainment. Reflecting on two vastly different, yet similar cities, Macau/澳門, also known as the ‘Las Vegas of Asia’ is a city located in southern China, under Portuguese colonisation for over 400 years until the 1999 handover to China, whilst Melbourne / Naarm, the second largest city in Australia has a deeply contested history of place. Originally inhabited by the Wurrundjeri people, the city grew rapidly, a result of colonisation from the UK and migration from many other nations. The artists selected for this exhibition responded to these themes and were selected from post graduate course work and research programs from RMIT School of Art and MUST Faculty of Humanities and Arts. 

Special thanks to Associate Professor Peng Liu, Director for International Affairs, artist and curator, MUST Art Gallery, Faculty of Humanities and Arts, MUST, Macau.

Co-curated by: Associate Professor Guanghui Huang (MUST), Associate Professor Peng Liu (MUST), Senior Lecturer Tammy Wong Hulbert (RMIT), Associate Professor Shane Hulbert (RMIT), Mingzheng Liu (RMIT PhD Candidate & Intern) and Minying Zhang (MUST PhD Candidate & Intern) in partnership with the Museum of Chinese-Australian History.