The Richmond Art Gallery has introduced its sweeping 2024 programme, that includes a slate of 6 progressive demonstrates where by artists use their craft to request difficult-hitting questions—and seek complicated responses.
With a lineup including iconic conceptual artists Paul Wong and Theodore Sasketche Wan, team exhibitions focusing on non secular ritual and foods tradition, and solo exhibits from rising creatives, there is a blend of community, countrywide, and global artwork on supply over the coming year.
“The 2024 application centres on existential thoughts, these kinds of as how do we communicate with many others throughout communities and how do we make connections throughout distinction?” suggests RAG curator Zoë Chan in a statement. “The artists deal with representation, embodiment, performativity, and much more by performs that span video, installation, effectiveness, printmaking, and puppetry.”
The programming is requested by seasons, with two exhibitions each working from January 20 to March 31, and April 20 to June 30 and a pair of expansive team exhibitions managing consecutively from July 20 to September 29, and then from October 19 to December 31
“Our exhibitions are programmed to offer you several entry factors for a selection of numerous site visitors, even though also introducing them to interesting will work by artists equally from Richmond and further more afield,” RAG director Shaun Dacey states in a launch. “Our shows are responsive to… the social fabric of the city.”
Here’s far more information about all the approaching exhibitions at the gallery, which is situated inside of the Richmond Cultural Centre (a shorter walk from Richmond-Brighouse SkyTrain station). Entry is by donation.
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Shen Xin explores feelings and ethics by means of her visual artwork. This solo exhibition centres on an eclectic video clip that explores language’s primality, prose, and protest.
When: January 20 to March 1, 2024
Permit the actual earth in
Modern day movie concentrated on little ones and youth abound in this exhibition, with parts from Kirsten Leenaars, Wapikoni Mobile, and Yoshua Okón, and responsive screenprints from Vancouver-centered artist Yaimel López Zaldívar.
When: January 20 to March 1, 2024
Until finally Bruises: Theodore Wan & Paul Wong
Two titans of 1970s conceptual artwork, Theodore Sasketche Wan and Paul Wong, are paired jointly in this exploration of physical, particular person-forward is effective. Presented the infuriating increase of anti-Asian despise, the Chinese-Canadian artists’ function proceeds to resonate currently.
When: April 20 to June 30, 2024
Hazel Meyer: The Marble in the Basement
Power, inheritance, and curation pervade Hazel Meyer’s do the job. It is section analysis challenge into Canadian artist Joyce Wieland’s legacy, and part exploration of how we decide what will get remembered.
When: April 20 to June 30, 2024
It commences with knowing and not knowing
A team exhibition that includes Rebecca Bair, Xinwei Che, Patrick Cruz, Zoë Kreye, Ogheneofegor Obuwoma, Michelle Seem, and Ximena Velásquez. These disparate artists are tied with each other by means of meditations on spirituality and ritual, with functions spanning textiles, cyanotypes, and movie.
When: July 20 to September 29, 2024
FOODWAYS
What is the intersection of art and food? This progressive exhibition mixes artists who discover the myriad dimensions of meals cultures, and community programming that highlights food-connected neighborhood events like gardening, food items security, and seed saving.
When: October 19 to December 31, 2024
