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Lan Florence Yee, Selected Hauntings, 2018. Lan Florence Yee, Selected Hauntings, installation documentation of the exhibition “Elusive Desires” at the Varley Art Gallery, 2018, each 211cm × 71cm. Image courtesy of the artist. Photo by Toni Hafkenscheid.

Embroidered textile panels hang from the gallery ceiling at varying heights. The panels are embroidered with quotes from the artist’s notes app including “She was worried about appropriating her own culture”, “I learnt my family history through Wikipedia”, and “He yelled, ‘go back to Chinatown’”