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As part of Doors Open Richmond, get an insider’s view to the public art along the Canada Line and in the Richmond Art Gallery.
Capture Photography Festival artists Khim Mata Hipol and Lauraine Mak, Gallery Curator Zoë Chan, and Richmond Public Art Planner Biliana Velkova will take visitors on a walking tour of their public artworks currently installed at Canada Line stations in Richmond. They will discuss the works on display at Capstan, Aberdeen, Lansdowne, and Brighouse stations. The afternoon will culminate at the Richmond Art Gallery for a tea break and curatorial tour of Restless by Nature, a retrospective on Mary Sui Yee Wong, whose work is also featured at Lansdowne Station.
NOTE: Participants will need to pay their own 1-zone transit fare, as we will take the Canada Line to each station. Final destination is about a 15 minute walk to the Art Gallery. Please dress for the walk & the weather.
All ages welcome to attend. RSVP is encouraged.
Please meet at Capstan Station (street level) at 1 PM sharp.
Tour schedule*:
*times may adjust slightly to accommodate travel time
About the Artists featured on the Canada Line:
Howie Tsui is a Vancouver-based interdisciplinary artist who constructs tense, fictive environments that undermine venerated art forms stemming from the Chinese literati tradition. Tsui’s works feature in prominent public collections, including the Vancouver Art Gallery, the Art Gallery of New South Wales, National Gallery of Canada, McMichael Canadian Art Collection and M+ in Hong Kong, among other institutions.
Filipino-born Khim Mata Hipol is an emerging interdisciplinary artist based on the unceded territories of the Squamish,Tsleil-Waututh, and Musqueam people. Through photography, Hipol examines how a sense of identity can be manipulated through commercialization. He explores the intersections of tourism, souvenir objects, and official government symbols, demonstrating how countries establish identity through these representations.
Lauraine Mak is an artist based in Vancouver, Canada and Düsseldorf, Germany. She is interested in themes such as perceptual repetition, metaphysical measurement, and visual culture. In 2019 she joined the Kunstakademie in Düsseldorf as a guest student and in 2024 she completed her MFA at School for the Contemporary Arts.
Mary Sui Yee Wong is a Montréal-based multidisciplinary artist who immigrated to Canada from Hong Kong in 1963. Wong’s work draws inspiration from personal memory, cultural herstory, and familial legacy to explore a hybrid ‘self’ as social construct. Wong is fascinated with how postcolonial Orientalism is marketed, disseminated, and consumed within a global economy. Presently, Wong is exploring alternative narratives to shed light on the disquiet of anti-Asian/anti-Chinese sentiment driven by racial neoliberalism. Working across disciplines that include sculpture, installation, video, and performance, Wong endeavors to defy fixedness in art as an act of resistance.
The presentation of the artworks by Khim Mata Hipol, Lauraine Mak, and Mary Sui Yee Wong on the Canada Line is a partnership between Richmond Public Art, Richmond Art Gallery, Capture Photography Festival, and InTransit BC.
