Exhibition Entrance. Silver bowls of various sizes are resting on the ground. An artwork is on the wall in the background.

Sherry Chunqing Liu, “Where have I arrived?”

Prompted by a personal polaroid of the curator of her childhood home in Xiamen, China, this thesis exhibition explores the themes of food/kitchen, translation, and body through the lens of “diaspora space”, defined by sociologist Avtar Brah as a conceptual category that “includes the entanglement, the intertwining of the genealogies of dispersion with those of ‘staying put’”. The project explores the relation between arriving in a gallery space and in diaspora space, and opens up the complexity of the idea of “Asian Diaspora.”

Curated by Sherry Chunqing Liu

Works by Lotus Laurie Kang, Brubey Hu, and Patrick Cruz

Instructor: Barbara Fischer

Course: VIS2101Y MVS Curatorial Studies Exhibition Project

Colourful artworks collaged and overlapping on a wall.

Three large painted artworks on fabric hanging in a room.

A set of three Chinese poetry books resting upright on a hanging shelf. The middle of which, is translated to English.

A cicular low table centres a room with three seating cushions placed quarterly around it. An abstract painting hang on the wall directly behind the table. Abstract markings extend along the walls of the room.

Silver bowls of different sizes sit on the floor. Each bowl contains unique materials – from liquids to spray painted fruits and fabrics.