Added on July 23, 2014
Mark Jacobs
Access Gallery , Areum Kim , Brendan Fernandez , British Columbia , Chelsey Doyle , Chinatown , East Georgia Street , eight Ounces half a Pound , Eric Wright , Guadalupe Martinez , Ho Sun Hing , Ho Sun Hing Printing , industrial , installation , Iron Chink , Katherine Soucie , Kimberly Phillips , labour , labour history , performance , post-industrial , racialization , racialized labour , racism , Samuel Hui , sculpture , segregation , Skid Row , Tommy Ting , urban transformation , urbanism , Yee Fung Toy Society
Vancouver’s racialized labour history inspires a sculptural response at Chinatown’s Access Gallery.
There is no shortage of artists who concentrate on site-specific work these days; and there is no shortage of galleries looking to display work that bears the strong formative and associative imprints of having arisen in a particular time and space. But most often, the relocation of the work into the gallery setting cannot help […]