Click In mid-2010 the Toronto-based curator Shannon Anderson, asked if I would be interested in pooling resources to develop an exhibition featuring Chinese and Canadian artists for the Varley Art Gallery of Markham. As a Canadian artist and curator based in Beijing, I saw this as an opportunity to look at both countries from new perspectives. To fully understand Chinese contemporary art and work with Chinese artists, however, my Western art knowledge had to evolve—and in some instances be forgotten. In online dialogues across time zones, Shannon and I discussed how to best connect uncommon threads between the two nations, and I became intrigued by the idea of focusing on artists who travel back and forth between Canada and China. As we struggled to find a conceptual bridge between the countries, one of us said, “well, everyone has to eat, maybe that's a place to begin”. That statement morphed into the concept of take out food as a form of cultural transference. The exhibition was co-developed with Varley Art Gallery of Markham, Ontario, where it opened,  then traveled  across western Canada between Mississauga Art Gallery, Plug In ICA, WPG and Surrey Art Gallery, BC. between 2012-15.

Varley Art Gallery of Markham , installation view, 2012

Plug IN ICA, Take-Out (Da Bao)