Linda Sok

Cambodian Australian artist Linda Sok navigates complex memories of loss, dispossession, love and family through the medium of discarded, repurposed textiles. Her work in Home and Away utilises fabrics that her grandmother and aunt had sewn together many years before, producing a cross-generational collaborative work as a means of sharing language and culture. Like other artists in the exhibition, Sok feels disconnected from her Cambodian heritage and language. By piecing together these different textiles she is piecing together stories from her childhood, including her family’s flight from the Khmer Rouge and the Cambodian genocide.