Amy Ching-Yan Lam With Haeahn Woo Kwon: A Small but Comfy House and Maybe a Dog

Gallery & Museum

RAG Exhibit

Richmond Art Gallery
7700 Minoru Gate

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The title of this exhibition comes from a text, “Me in the Future,” that Amy Ching-Yan Lam wrote at age eleven and put in a time capsule, speculating by the age of twenty-five she’d be married, have a career and “a small but comfy house and maybe a dog.” Starting from these childhood fantasies of domestic love and financial stability, Lam presents artworks that explore how these dreams function within the wider context of colonial history. With humour and acuity, she examines the relationships between property, family, institutional power and collections and theft.

A central part of the exhibition is a series of models created by Lam in collaboration with artist HaeAhn Woo Kwon, where they remake toys, domestic materials and found objects into a fantasy communal home. The imagined dog is represented by the real story of Looty, a Pekingese dog taken from China by British troops at the end of the Second Opium War, told through a book and animation.

The exhibition will be accompanied by an artist book, co-published with UK-based publisher Book Works, in 2024.

Image credit: Amy Ching-Yan Lam, "Time Capsule (1994)", 2022. Courtesy of the artist.

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This event is for All Ages.

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This event is free.