Rozana Lee
A Way of Being Free
24 May - 2 July 2022
A Way of Being Free is part of Rozana Lee’s ongoing exploration that draws on ideas surrounding migration, belonging, and identity. It looks at identity that exists within sociocultural context alongside self-reflection from personal experiences. It reflects on the fluidity and mobility in migrant identity, suggesting a type of identity that is not based on belonging to one single culture, but an identity that is able to be negotiated, partly detach, and expanding its connections with other cultures. An identity that embraces multiplicity and marginality as part of identity development: like a tree that is re-rooted in a new community, adjusting its growth to the changing environments and its surroundings.
Rozana Lee is of Indonesian-Chinese heritage. She moved to Aotearoa in 2010, and is currently based in Tāmaki Makaurau Auckland. She holds a Master of Fine Arts, with First Class Honours, from Elam, The University of Auckland (2018) and a Bachelor of Visual Arts from Auckland University of Technology (2015). Working across textile, moving image and painting, her work combines cultural elements form her birth country Indonesia, her Chinese ancestral heritage and her adopted home, Aotearoa New Zealand. Lee was recently the recipient of People's Choice Award of National Contemporary Art Award 2021 and Estuary Art & Ecology Prize Awards 2018. She has undertaken artist residencies at Instinc, Singapore in 2016, and Making Space, Guangzhou, China, in 2019.
