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Candice Lin: Pigs and Poison
Debuting at the Govett-Brewster Art Gallery / Len Lye Centre, this survey exhibition brings together newly commissioned and existing works by LA-based artist Candice Lin.
Through her art practice, Lin explores legacies of Chinese migration and the interconnected cultivation of crops like tobacco, sugar cane, poppy, and fungi.
Lin looks at how the racialized language around plants and their use in parallel narratives of vitality and contamination.
The stories told weave together the Chinese, American, and British colonial specificities to deliver a complex view of lesser-known histories of Chinese migration that have echoes in New Zealand and uncanny relevance today. In particular, stories of borders and segregation; racial profiling and conspiracy theories; bodies and remedies; viruses and war give unsettling historical context for current conditions.
Lin鈥檚 approach to conveying marginalised histories is as varied as the stories themselves, encompassing: virtual reality, sculpture, drawing, and large-scale installation.
Pigs and Poison premieres at the Govett-Brewster before traveling to partner institutions Times Museum, Guangzhou, and Spike Island, Bristol.
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Debuting at the Govett-Brewster Art Gallery / Len Lye Centre, this survey exhibition brings together newly commissioned and existing works by LA-based artist Candice Lin.
Through her art practice, Lin explores legacies of Chinese migration and the interconnected cultivation of crops like tobacco, sugar cane, poppy, and fungi.
Lin looks at how the racialized language around plants and their use in parallel narratives of vitality and contamination.
The stories told weave together the Chinese, American, and British colonial specificities to deliver a complex view of lesser-known histories of Chinese migration that have echoes in New Zealand and uncanny relevance today. In particular, stories of borders and segregation; racial profiling and conspiracy theories; bodies and remedies; viruses and war give unsettling historical context for current conditions.
Lin鈥檚 approach to conveying marginalised histories is as varied as the stories themselves, encompassing: virtual reality, sculpture, drawing, and large-scale installation.
Pigs and Poison premieres at the Govett-Brewster before traveling to partner institutions Times Museum, Guangzhou, and Spike Island, Bristol.
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