"Portable Walls"

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Ya-chu Kang "Occupy" mixed media on paper 20" x 13"

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"Portable Walls" by Christian Nicolay and Ya-chu Kang, March 29 - April 21, 2012

"Portable Walls" is a collaborative exhibition of new work by Christian Nicolay and Ya-chu Kang exploring contemporary narratives of safety and identity, man and women, East and West, in a post 9-11 age where it seems more rules, regulations and checks on our privacy continue to grow and change. Through the use of video, sculpture, mixed media drawing and installation the artists collectively and individually explore the polarities between life and death, public and private, safety and danger, comfort and distress particularly examining the similarities and differences between Canada and Taiwan.

Their collaborative video "Recoil" may be viewed HERE.

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Working both together and off each other,Christian Nicolay and Ya-chu Kang have produced an exhibition comprised of video, sculpture, mixed media drawing and installation. This new body of work explores the polarities between life and death, public and private, safety and danger, comfort and distress and, in particular, examines the similarities and differences between Canada and Taiwan in a post 9-11 age, an age where it seems rules, regulations and checks on our privacy continue to grow and change.

Both artists utilize found material of the everyday, producing works ranging from the various topographical landscapes of Nicolay's mixed media paper drawings to Kang's reconstructions of objects into sculptural forms and articles of clothing. Throughout this exhibition the artists’ individual and collective works examine cultural boundaries and social constructions of identity as well as how we individually know ourselves in a growing global fabric increasingly crisscrossed and blurred.

Their collaborative video "Recoil" may be viewed at RECOIL.