Free 
Lewers: Penrith Regional Gallery presents
Join Monica Rani Rudhar in an insightful conversation exploring the place of longing, loss and cultural identity in her interdisciplinary practice.
Join us in conversation with Monica Rani Rudhar at Penrith Regional Gallery. Based on Gadigal land, Rani Rudhar works across sculpture, video, and performance, creating works that restore familial histories, traditions, and rituals disrupted by migration and displacement. Born to Indian and Romanian migrant parents, she explores her family history through multi-channel digital works for the 25th Biennale of Sydney. Her practice reclaims narratives of relationships, resistance, and ritual, inviting audiences to engage with memory, heritage, and identity.
Tickets & pricing
Free, please RSVP.
Duration
11am - 12pm
Age Suitability
All ages
Accessibility
Wheelchair Accessible
About the Artist
Monica Rani Rudhar is an artist based on Gadigal land, working across sculpture, video, and performance. Her practice explores the themes of longing and loss related to cultural identity, tracing intergenerational stories within her family to create space for imaginative possibilities. Born to Indian and Romanian migrant parents, her work is influenced by the forces of cultural conformity, essentialisation, and commodification within a settler colonial context. Rani Rudhar’s practice seeks to restore familial histories, traditions, and rituals that have been dispersed by the migration and displacement of her ancestors. Through her auto-ethnographic approach, she translates her family’s fragmented oral histories to reclaim narratives of relationships, resistance, and ritual. These stories intertwine, weaving a personal mythology that manifests their cultural fictions and futures in so-called Australia.
