Mia Ardianto
@miaardiantoart
Mia Ardianto is an emerging contemporary artist living and practicing on Dharug land, Sydney. Her work is largely process-driven, employing a variety of media that spans printmaking, collage, illustration and digital processes. Her current practice integrates found and archival imagery, interwoven with the organic processes of decay, and reimagined to explore themes of memory, impermanence and generational dis/connection, evoking stories lost to time. Mia’s BFA work engages with a personal family archive, drawing on a collection of neglected photo slides and damaged images to investigate how memories - both personal and collective - are preserved, altered, and experienced across generations. She reflects on how methods of archiving and viewing these images have evolved over time, and how the value we place on them as objects of memory has shifted. Experimenting with screen printing on acrylic sheets, Mia reworks these existing images through scratching, layering, inverting and rearranging, transforming them to a point where they bare traces of the past while taking on new meanings in the present. The resulting images are delicate, imperfect and marked by chance, carrying an ephemeral quality that mirrors the decay so often found in the original photographs.
View the work: Building 16, Building 27, Ground Floor Gallery
