Unseamed is an experimental narrative video work featuring the performance of HongKonger-Australian Pamela Leung putting on and freeing herself from a Cheongsam – a dress emblematic of a national Chinese femininity.

The work depicts the tension felt by Pamela between the contemporary political reality of her homeland, Hong Kong, and the often-associated Chinese identity. This represents her distancing from the latter while living and working in her current home in Sydney.

Shot in collaboration with Gadigal-based Australian-Canadian filmmaker and artist Liam Black, who resonates with the globally stretched sense of home and identity and shares an all anti-imperial sentiment. He evokes the psychological aspect of this performance through a film language informed by psychological thriller, drama, horror and slow cinema genres.

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