Photo Credit: Louis Lim
Georgia Morgan’s This dream is real (2020) is a site-specific installation that references the Malaysian kampong (village) that her mother grew up in. This work looks at intergenerational relationships and the failure inherent in translating memories - there are no photos that exist of her mother’s kampong and so the artist solely relies on her mother’s words and memories via Skype conversations.
“I have been Skyping my mum in Sydney from Hobart. We talk about the kampong she grew up in. I try to get a lay of the land. She mainly tells me stories about people; her neighbours fighting with one another; when her dad died suddenly and her mum and twelve siblings moved house; and her Christian friend giving her high heels donated from some British church.” (Morgan, 2020).
This installation is the result of these conversations. In the artist’s words: “She is remembering and I am imagining.” (Morgan, 2020).