Ed Pien: Our Beloved
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Glenbow Museum 130 9 Ave SE, Calgary, Alberta T2G 0P3
Ed Pien, "Our Beloved," 2019
installation view
Ed Pien: Our Beloved
Ed Pien’s 144 framed photographs of flowers are hung together in a monumental, wall-filling installation. The artist photographed the flowers at gravesites at a cemetery in Santiago, Chile which is the final resting place for many political dissidents and victims of the murderous reign of dictator Augusto Pinochet between 1973 and 1990. For Pien, the colourfully decorated burial sites seemed to be overflowing with love and joy in remembrance of lives once lived. By presenting a great number of floral images together, he borrows the acts of devotion and memorial of strangers, in order to share some of the big, complex emotions that all people experience when dealing with death and loss.
Ed Pien is a Canadian artist based in Toronto. He has been making art for over early 30 years. Born in Taipei, Taiwan, he immigrated to Canada with his family at the age of eleven.
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