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2:00 pm – 4:00 pm
Theodore Sasketche Wan, Panoramic Dental X-Ray, 1977, silver gelatin print, 27.2 x 34.9 cm. Collection of Vancouver Art Gallery, Acquisition Fund.
Theodore Sasketche Wan, Panoramic Dental X-Ray, 1977, silver gelatin print, 27.2 x 34.9 cm. Collection of Vancouver Art Gallery, Acquisition Fund.
Artist Talk
Artist Talk & Opening Reception | Unit Bruises: Theodore Wan & Paul Wong, 1975 – 1979
ADMISSION
Free
Artist/Curator Talk & Tour: 2:00 – 3:00 pm
Opening Reception: 3:00 — 4:00 pm
Join Richmond Art Gallery curator Zoë Chan, artist Hazel Meyer, and guest curator Michael Dang for an informal tour of the new exhibitions The Marble in the Basement and the Selected Exhibition Unit Bruises.
Unit Bruises brings together the works of two Chinese Canadian conceptual artists active during the 1970s: Theodore Sasketche Wan (b. 1953; d. 1987) and Paul Wong (b. 1954). By mobilizing their respective bodies and the visual languages of medical and procedural illustrations, both artists subverted the notions of objectivity that have been naturalized through such hegemonic imagery. Through these intensely physical works, the two artists respectively asserted their othered subject positions as people of colour and ruminated on the topics of illness, death, and the human condition.
About Michael Dang
Michael Dang (he/him/his) is a curator, filmmaker, writer and second year MA candidate in the Critical and Curatorial Studies Program at the University Of British Columbia, where he also received his BA degree majoring in Art History. Dang was the recipient of the SSHRC Canada Graduate Scholarship Master’s Award in September 2022 and the Audain Foundation Graduate Fellowship of that same year. Dang has also received awards for his directorial and screenwriting work including the short Brother Mary (2021) which has been selected for over fifteen international film festivals and was the recipient of the Best Script award at both the Toronto Indie Filmmakers Festival and the Seoul International Short Film Festival. His curatorial practice is research and archival-based, with a special interest in historical curation, and sociopolitical contextualization, broadly focusing on mid-century conceptualism. He is based in Vancouver on the traditional, ancestral and unceded territories of the Musqueam, Tsleil-Waututh and Squamish nations.
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