Gu Xiong: The Unknown Remains

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Gu Xiong, "Garbage Bag," 1995

charcoal on canvas

Opening reception and artist talk August 23 at 7 pm.

"The Unknown Remains," an exhibition by multidisciplinary artist, Gu Xiong, covers both galleries. UBC professor and Chinese Immigrant Gu Xiong 's exhibit will feature a variety of mediums, including photographs from the Shawn Lamb archives, portraits of the Chinese community in Nelson, historical newspaper articles, drawings from Gu’s collection, and pages of his sketchbooks which were filled when Gu was a teenager in China and living in a labour camp. It also hosts a container ship made of 1500 cardboard boxes, and a wall of 1500 portraits of immigrant workers from Ontario and British Columbia.