Trace

GWENESSA LAM, WHAT MAGIC, 2018. COURTESY OF THE ARTIST

Trace

Art Gallery at Evergreen Cultural Centre, Coquitlam, BC - To Apr 26

by Robin Laurence

Riffing on the idea of the “black mirror” – that is, the computer screen – Trace brings together the work of two interdisciplinary artists, Gwenessa Lam and Hyung-Min Yoon. Lam is represented here by an installation of photo-etchings and a book whose primary image, sourced online, is of a house on fi re. Yoon’s fi lm installation quotes from 15th-century Confucian woodblock prints, their moral lessons confounded by allusions to contemporary cartoon culture and black humour.

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