ABSTRACT In this article, we discuss Ben Quilty’s Home: Drawings by Syrian Children (2018) as a case study that explores how we might approach children’s life narratives that are mediated by adult curators. Children’s lives and stories demand recognition, but, reading them (within scholarly and activist or benevolent spaces), requires ethical methods; in particular, generous reading frameworks that attempt to read ‘through’ mediation, and beyond adult/child binaries, towards a greater recognition of the contexts that the child life narrators (in this instance, as artists) ask us to attend to. As we analyse a selection of the children’s drawings in Home, we ask, to what extent do these children’s life narratives, of explicitly interior lives, usefully test the limits of Quilty’s and other levels of mediation?

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儿童见证的循环：阅读叙利亚儿童的家庭画

摘要 在本文中，我们将 Ben Quilty 的家：叙利亚儿童的绘画（2018 年）作为一个案例研究，探讨我们如何处理由成人策展人调解的儿童生活叙事。儿童的生活和故事需要得到认可，但是，阅读它们（在学术和活动家或仁慈的空间内），需要道德方法；特别是，试图“通过”中介阅读的慷慨阅读框架，超越成人/儿童的二元性，以更好地认识儿童生活叙述者（在这种情况下，作为艺术家）要求我们关注的背景。当我们在 Home 中分析精选的儿童绘画时，我们会问，这些儿童的生活叙事，明确的内心生活，在多大程度上有效地测试了奎尔蒂和其他中介层次的局限性？