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Kings Artist-Run provides a location for contemporary art practice, supporting distinctive experimental projects by artists at all stages of their careers.
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KINGS Artist-Run acknowledges the Wurundjeri and Boonwurrung people of the Kulin Nation as the Traditional Custodians of the land on which we operate.

We offer our respect to Elders both past and present and extend this offer to all Australian First Nations people.

虚应故事 Empty Response Stories Matte

Jincheng Deng


10 April 2025–04 May 2025

Begins with the literal and blunt Chinese-to-English translation of the title; this gathering is throughout about translation.

The sutured, the manipulated tools will be the ad hoc actors who are called on the stage of Kings and rushed to play the characters in the stories. But never their designed designations. Suture reminds us that there is a wound, and it is this wound that is to be sutured and repressed through imagination.

Through the ‘cosplay’ of incompetent actors, meaning of stories is reduced and depleted by translation. Just as the original (Chinese) name of the exhibition is burnt out in translation. It only meant to get by with a perfunctory attitude.

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  • https://www.jinchengdeng.com/about