The River
Gu Xiong’s installation “The River” is described by John O’Brian as a meditation on migrancy and displacement. The author situates the work within the life of the artist, who left China because of political oppression, and the history of the Canadian West, which has marginalized its Chinese inhabitants. Short poetic texts by Gu Xiong in […]
Angola a preto e branco: Fotografia e ciência no Museu do Dundo, 1940-1970
When it comes to distributing scientific knowledge, photography and the museum share a number of characteristics. One like the other operate by selection, fragmenting the real. They proceed by composition, regrouping, in printed albums or in the confined space of a shop window, room or building, the fragments they produce. Both are mediators of something […]
Germaine Koh: Personal
Although this catalogue is produced on the occasion of Germain Koh’s exhibition Personal, its scope exceeds that of the show and provides a context for the ephemeral projects in relation to the artist’s larger practice. Jan Allen’s essay identifies threads of continuity in Koh’s work and examines the ways in which these projects reflect and […]
The Yellow Pear
Gu Xiong came to Canada from China to find freedom and a new life, but with it came the uneasy feeling of being a stranger in a strange land, with customs, attitudes, and ways of living far different from what he and his family had known in China. The Yellow Pear is a collection of […]