"uncontained: categories always leak"
Exhibition period: 28 April - 13 May 2023
Venue: The Wattis Institute, California College of the Arts, San Francisco, California, US
Opening reception on 28 April, 5-8pm (PDT)
Galerie du Monde is delighted to share the cermaic-based artist Cathy Lu is invited to join the group exhibition, presented by California College of the Arts at The Wattis Institute. The exhibition navigates colonial power, museological plunder, and global consumption through the concept of containment. Five artists — Candice Lin, Cathy Lu, LaRissa Rogers, Cammie Staros, and Stephanie Syjuco are invited to unearth the hidden histories of colonial goods to connect material culture with human experiences.
With the vase as our point of departure, we address and break apart the physical force of containment as manifested in tightly controlled museum settings. Exhibiting artists use vases, vitrines, or vessel-like forms to trace global power dynamics while also addressing broader concepts of value, spillage, and emptiness. We ask, how does containment relate to identity, culture, and power? What, or who, is being contained? How are artists breaking free of restraints, liberating what is confined, flowing over and beyond their containers?
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California College of the Arts - The Wattis Institute
