Exhumed: Deliberating R.M Khomeini
Lecture and text by Rahat Kurd Curators: Hank Bull and Sadira Rodrigues The first solo exhibition of work by Vancouver based artist, Mo Sa’lemy focuses on the Ayatollah Khomeini, the leader of Iran’s Islamic Revolution from 1977 till his death in June 1989. Using images taken from magazines, newspapers, the television and other […]
Chinatown Modern
Location Chinese Cultural Centre, 50 East Pender Street, Vancouver Chinatown Modern was a collaborative artist-research project between Centre A and artist Steven Tong, that sought to increase the public’s awareness of Vancouver contemporary (modern) art and culture produced by residents of Asian descent. One key aim of this project was to celebrate the […]
Capital Cities
Sylvia Grace Borda Artist Talk Wednesday June 12, 2002 at 7pm Capital Cities presented a series of colour and black and white photographs of specific locations in Tokyo and London taken between 1997 and 2002. The photographs of Sylvia Borda contemplate the emergence of a transnational, ‘supermodernist’ architectural aesthetic, whose forms are repeated in […]
Lessons
Photo Exhibition Video Screening at Video In, 1965 Main Street Sunday, May 5, 2002 at 7pm Ho Tam’s exhibition Lessons consists of twenty-five colour photographs taken during a recent visit to the colonial Catholic boys’ school in Hong Kong he attended as a child during the 1960s and 70s. Moving between the role […]
Radeau de la Madeuse
Solo exhibition Hu Jieming was born in Shanghai in 1957. After graduating from the Fine Art Department of the Shanghai Light Industry College in 1984, Hu won numerous prizes as a student and then went on to pursue a highly successful career as a painter. In the 1990s Hu turned to video and […]
Interrogation
Curator: Hank Bull Artist -in – residence January 12 February 9, 2002 Opening Friday, January 11, 7pm Web Streaming Event Thursday, January 17 at the Western Front Performance Friday, February 1, 9pm, at the Western Front Heri Dono is one of the leading contemporary artists in South East Asia. Based in Yogyakarta, Indonesia, […]
Korean Family Photographs
Mixed Media Installation Symposium at Westin Grand Hotel November 3, 10 am With Grace Eiko Thomson and Yong Soon Min Yoshiko Shimada’s exhibition, Korean Family Photographs, grew out of a casual conversation with Hwanbo Kanja in Osaka, who had invited her to give a talk on the issues of Korean Comfort Women. Kanja […]
Closer Than They Appear
Photo Exhibition Evan Lee’s new exhibition, Closer Than They Appear, documents twenty-five photographs taken over the last seven or so years, showing the often forgotten aspects of Vancouver life. Lee kept his camera with him, photographing whatever caught his attention, whether it was a cherry blossom tree caught in the force of the […]
The Liminal Body
Video installation. Curator: Zheng Shengtian Xu Zhen The Liminal Body August 4 – 25, 2001 We are pleased to host Xu Zhen’s first solo exhibition, curated by New York-based curator Lu Jie. Four pieces were featured in this show, all of which highlight Xu’s interest in issues surrounding the human body. In Shouting, […]
Shapes/Forms
Curator: Hank Bull Stone, wood and metal sculpture, held in the Pendulum Gallery, HSBC
