Image: Pia Johnson A view of the pool, from Mooramong Green series 2020, archival inkjet print. Courtesy of the artist. Courtesy: the artist and Bundoora Homstead Art Centre.

Pia Johnson is known for her distinctive portraiture and performance photography. For a new exhibition at Bundoora Homestead Art Centre, the artist turns to the self as subject matter, employing self-portraiture to examine transcultural identity, place, memory and belonging. Pia’s line of inquiry centres on the histories of representation of the Eurasian female body in domestic settings, and Faint Echoes forms part of the artist’s ongoing considerations of post-colonial and feminist narratives in contemporary Australia as a woman of Chinese and Italian-Australian descent.

Pia Johnson lives and works on Dja Dja Wurrung Country. She has exhibited nationally and internationally including at the 10th Asia Pacific Triennial at the Queensland Art Gallery, Ballarat International Foto Biennale, National Portrait Gallery, the Castlemaine State Arts Festival, Studio Kura, Japan, and the Pingyao International Photography Festival, China.