Vietnamese-Australian artist James Nguyen has documented the journey to save his family's failing textiles business.
Nguyen's first major solo exhibition, Exit Strategies, opens this week at the 4A Centre for Contemporary Asian Art.
Specially commissioned by 4A, Exit Strategies presents new installation and video works from Nguyen.
The works reflect upon the artist’s experience living in a factory in south-west Sydney.
It documents the effort to save the family's textile business during the 1990s.
Together with his mother, Nguyen has created a large-scale sculptural screen, Flatbed Knit Polo Collars (Surplus Stock) (2015).
This is sewn together from hundreds of polo shirt collars saved from the factory – a tribute to his mother’s efforts to support the family as it began to fail.
The exhibition will run from September 4 to October 10.