Shaye Dương is an emerging artist based on Kaurna Land (Adelaide). Working across sculptural processes of casting and assemblage, her practice examines human engagement with objects and sites associated with intimacy, security and ritual. Her curiosity is mostly informed by her complex relationship towards the idiosyncrasies surrounding the Vietnamese diasporic experience and the paradoxical position she occupies as both active participant and passive spectator of her culture. Often leaning on inherent themes of translational slippages and spatial uncertainty, Dương aims to create new forms that hold traces of both the arcane and familiar. She is currently a Studio Program artist at Adelaide Contemporary Experimental. Recent exhibitions include presentations at Adelaide Central School of Art; Firstdraft, Sydney; Holy Rollers Studios, Adelaide; and Perth Institute of Contemporary Arts.