Exhibition “Third Realm” Travels to Polygon Gallery
Arthub is delighted to announce that the exhibition “Third Realm”, previously presented at the Museum of Contemporary Photography in Chicago, has now travelled to the Polygon Gallery in North Vancouver, Canada where it is on view from Sep 4 to Nov 8, 2020.
Duration: 2020 September 4th-November 8th
Venue: Polygon Gallery, 101 Carrie Cates Court, North Vancouver, BC, V7M 3J4
Artists: Birdhead, Cao Fei, Heman Chong, Comfortable Collective, FX Harsono, Jompet (Agustinus Kuswidananto), Lu Yang, Sutee Kunavichayanont, Surasi Kusolwong, Gary Ross Pastrana, Paola Pivi, Sun Xun, Apichatpong Weerasethakul, Xijing Men, Yang Zhenzhong, and Zhou Xiaohu
Curator: Davide Quadrio
Third Realm showcases a crucial period of artistic production in Asia from 2004 to 2019. The exhibition includes photography, film, and installation by seminal figures of the Asian contemporary art scene. Third Realm offers critical insights into the sociopolitical shifts occurring during the 2000s when Asia’s economic prosperity began to command global attention. While often calling into question the limits of camera documentation and historical record, the artists exploit the directness of documentary images to reveal the complexities of hybrid identities and social change.
Curated by Davide Quadrio, Third Realm is drawn from the FarEastFarWest collection, a Shanghai-based organisation that commissions and acquires contemporary Asian artworks and is housed at the Museum of Contemporary Photography at Columbia College in Chicago. FarEastFarWest was founded in 2007 by Eric Guichard and Davide Quadrio and serves as a production platform for artistic projects. The shared goal of its co-founders is to identify artists, select projects and produce historic pieces which address contemporary issues relevant to life in Asia.
Follow the “Third Realm” Podcast series on the Polygon Gallery website: https://thepolygon.ca/news, beginning with Episode 12, and Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/polygongallery
Thanks to the Depart Foundation for support of Paula Pivi’s “Tulkus” project.
Organised by: Museum of Contemporary Photography, Columbia College Chicago