Through large-scale drawing and multimedia installation, Sao Tanaka, Shuai Yang, and Tina Lam come together in residence to trace the shifting relationships between the singular and the collective, the human and the more-than-human, and the land and its layered histories. Moving across scales of perception and imagination, their practices attend to forces—seen and unseen, known and unknowable—that shape our experience of the world.
Sao Tanaka (based in NYC) creates large-scale drawings that explore the topography, composition, and cultural memory embedded within historical landscapes, examining how human narratives become inscribed into the land and tracing connections between geological formations, cultural histories, and the shifting ways places are perceived, represented, and remembered.
Shuai Yang (based in NYC) examines how measurement, representation, scale, and authority shape the conditions through which bodies and objects become knowable, considering how shifts in scale shape our understanding of systems, perception, and belonging.
Tina Lam (based in Montréal) continues her investigation into how human beings physically and imaginatively relate to forces that exceed human understanding, tracing connections between the physical, the metaphysical, and the unknowable.
Throughout the week, the gallery will become a space for dialogue, experimentation, and collaborative inquiry as the artists develop new work in situ. Visitors are invited to attend daily open studios, witnessing works in progress and engaging with the artists as ideas and forms take shape.