I Notice a Sound That鈥檚 Out of Place
I Notice a Sound That鈥檚 Out of Place: silence on a busy street; rumbling thunder in January; birds chirping in the dead of night.
Over the past two years, eight artists based in Canada鈥�Priscilla Yin Barker, Hayley Chiu, Tong Zhou Lafrance, Katia Lo Innes, Serene Yi-Shuan Mitchell, Tizzi Tan, Jasmine Yangqingqing Yu and Emerald Repard-Denniston 鈥攁ll happened to travel back to Asia. While some artists visited mainland China, others visited Hong Kong and Taiwan. Each territory is fraught with complex histories of migration and imperialism, and thus is called 鈥榟ome鈥� by billions in overlapping diasporas. An uncanny rift opens between memory and home. While investigating this dwelling, we find a dirty mirror, a ghost lingering in a family album; a decaying facade, an ink stain oozing across memory. A woman鈥檚 face stares back at us, cool and detached, full of rage and longing. The mirror falls. And then, a shatter.
This multimedia exhibition challenges and reinterprets the concept of a 鈥渉omecoming.鈥� Artists grapple with contradictory emotions and fluid representations of Asianness and Asia as a material space. Physical and metaphorical boundaries are called into question in each artist鈥檚 journey toward reconciliation. By incorporating archival materials, photo weavings, still-life, dioramas, architectural molds, and experimental film, this exhibit seeks to understand these rituals of return.
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I Notice a Sound That鈥檚 Out of Place: silence on a busy street; rumbling thunder in January; birds chirping in the dead of night.
Over the past two years, eight artists based in Canada鈥�Priscilla Yin Barker, Hayley Chiu, Tong Zhou Lafrance, Katia Lo Innes, Serene Yi-Shuan Mitchell, Tizzi Tan, Jasmine Yangqingqing Yu and Emerald Repard-Denniston 鈥攁ll happened to travel back to Asia. While some artists visited mainland China, others visited Hong Kong and Taiwan. Each territory is fraught with complex histories of migration and imperialism, and thus is called 鈥榟ome鈥� by billions in overlapping diasporas. An uncanny rift opens between memory and home. While investigating this dwelling, we find a dirty mirror, a ghost lingering in a family album; a decaying facade, an ink stain oozing across memory. A woman鈥檚 face stares back at us, cool and detached, full of rage and longing. The mirror falls. And then, a shatter.
This multimedia exhibition challenges and reinterprets the concept of a 鈥渉omecoming.鈥� Artists grapple with contradictory emotions and fluid representations of Asianness and Asia as a material space. Physical and metaphorical boundaries are called into question in each artist鈥檚 journey toward reconciliation. By incorporating archival materials, photo weavings, still-life, dioramas, architectural molds, and experimental film, this exhibit seeks to understand these rituals of return.
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