Natalie Tso is an emerging artist working on stolen Cammerygal and Gadigal lands. She creates sculptures and self-performances to survive trauma. Her performances prioritise bodily memories and their contact with materials such as hair, face masks, threads and clay. Natalie investigates the emblematic acts of cleaning and swallowing as metaphors for cultural erasure and the racial ornamentalisation of Asian women. The material residues from these performances complete her sculptures. Hinged upon a precarious balance between love and fear, remembering and forgetting, survival and grief, her art is about suffering, aiming to reshape intimate and political relationships.
