The exhibition titled How to Make Space, curated by Jennifer L. Davis (MArch 2011) and Su-Ying Lee (MVS 2011) featuring work by Tings Chak (MArch 2014), has received a 2016 Grant from the Graham Foundation for Advanced Studies in the Fine Arts. The exhibition explores temporary structures built by women in Hong Kong as gestures of female spatial agency. Other artists featured in the exhibition include Stephanie Comilang, Devora Neumark, and Rowena Yin-Fan Chan.

From the Graham Foundation for Advanced Studies in the Fine Arts website:

How to Make Space is an exhibition that frames the temporary architectures built by Hong Kong's population of female migrant domestic workers (MDWs) as gestures of female spatial agency. Three commissioned projects reveal the oppressive legal and cultural forces that compel the women to occupy public spaces and build structures of provisional materials in which to spend their Sundays off from work. The projects are researched and authored by artists Stephanie Comilang (Toronto/Berlin), Tings Chak (Toronto), and Devora Neumark (Montreal) with Rowena Yin-Fan Chan (Hong Kong). By presenting these works in an accessible and unconventional setting, the exhibition heightens awareness in a broad audience and directly engages the spaces and people with which it is concerned. Together, the projects point toward the possibility of a feminist architecture by striving to employ tactics learned from the MDWs, questioning existing disciplinary and social power structures, and developing new methodologies of How to Make Space.

How to Make Space is one of the projects organized by Davis and Lee under the name of Rear View (Projects). Both a curatorial collective and an itinerant site for art, Rear View (Projects) experiments with unconventional platforms to mobilize new interactions between art, place, and audiences. Recent exhibitions include Flipping Properties (2014), a large-scale installation commissioned for a Toronto Laneway designed by architect Jimenez Lai (HBA 2002, MArch 2007) with Bureau Spectacular.

How to Make Space will be on display from June 25 to July 23, 2016 in Hong Kong, China. For more information, visit rearviewprojects.com