Graduate Exhibition

Maya Mulvey-Santana’s work utilises the innate ambivalence of the colour pink and its ability to shift across associations, in order to explore identity as a constellation of irreconcilable forces and fragments. Her approach to identity production as dependent upon fragmentation, relationality, and slippage, is heavily influenced by her personal context as the daughter of a refugee from the Pinochet Regime in Chile. Maya's work is often driven by exploring a personal archive related to her relationship with her father and his journey before and after settling in Australia, employing a feminist approach to the archive to allow memories and experiences to enter the work.