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Curated by Zoë Chan
Chromophobia manifests itself in the many and varied attempts to purge colour from culture, to devalue colour, to diminish its significance. – David Batchelor
Published at the beginning of the twenty-first century, David Batchelor’s book Chromophobia (2000) critically examined what the author termed “chromophobia”—the fear of colour. Historically marginalized and othered within European and North American …
Activating memories through movement, Khim Mata Hipol folds migrant rituals into Eroplanong Papel at Bangkang Papel (Paper Airplane and Paper Boat), evoking the childhood innocence of paper airplanes and boats. Each photogram is carefully folded and exposed to light for five seconds – a symbolic gesture reflecting the five-year journey toward obtaining Canadian citizenship. The resulting gradients of …
This public art project is featured in tandem with Restless by Nature: Mary Sui Yee Wong, 1990s to the Present, a major survey exhibition presented at Richmond Art Gallery from April 12 to June 8, 2025.
Mary Sui Yee Wong’s TREASURE (1999) was originally a public art commission that was part of Québec’s Art and Architecture Integration Policy. The …
Levels is an ongoing series of works centring around the concept of measurement as a means of justifying and understanding phenomena. As part of this series, Sequence 1–5 is composed of five photographs which capture an uncertain moment in time, grounded by a tiny bubble of air at the centre of a level tool. The instrument negotiates a version of truth …
In Flights of Serendipity, Mitchell Seeyu invites viewers into a world where fleeting encounters with nature and culture are captured through fluid washes of colour and soft tonal transitions. Drawing inspiration from memories of Hong Kong and everyday moments in Vancouver—migratory birds mid-song, playful goldfish beneath blossoms, leaves turning golden with the seasons, lion dances in the snow during …
Tides Within brings together Richmond-based artists Fanny BokYin Tang and Debra Zhou, whose practices share a deep desire to harmonize inner freedom with the rhythms of the natural world. Tang’s surreal seascapes reflect on environmental fragility and Buddhist teachings, blending playful marine life with symbolic coral forms. Zhou’s abstract watercolour landscapes are rooted in her experience of pregnancy and early …
Donated to Richmond Art Gallery by Arthur Richardson in 1994, this work by Jalisco artist Juan Carrillo de la Cruz exemplifies the rich artistic tradition of the Huichol or Wixárika community in Northwestern Mexico.
For the Huichols, the realm of spirituality is intricately woven into the fabric of daily life, and their art is a vivid expression of this …
