Room For Shifting Expressions: Critical Distance at NUIT ROSE 2019
June 15, 2019 - June 23, 2019Opening Reception: Saturday, June 15th, 5–9 pm
Critical Distance is pleased to participate in Nuit Rose 2019 with a presentation of new work by Eric Chengyang and Ebrin Bagheri curated by CDCC Curatorial Programs Coordinator Emily Peltier.
Nuit Rose is an annual festival that showcases national and international 2SLGBTQ+ identified artists in Toronto. In response to the 2019 festival theme ARCADE, Room For Shifting Expressions will exhibit new works by Chengyang and Bagheri that explore individual, historical, and culturally-specific experiences of gender identity and sexuality made visible through illustration, motifs, language translation, and interactive installation.
Location and Hours
Chengyang and Bagheri’s work will be situated in the Critical Distance (Suite 302). Additional work by Bagheri will also be on view the 3rd floor hallway outside our door at Artscape Youngplace as a part of a group exhibition curated by John Rubino for Nuit Rose. Beyond Youngplace, Nuit Rose will takes place at multiple venues across Toronto with its focus in the Church-Wellesley Village.
About the Curator(s)
Emily Peltier
About the Artists
Eric Chengyang
Eric Chengyang is a Toronto-based interdisciplinary artist of Chinese-Canadian background. They works in the hybrid of traditional, digital, and ephemeral mediums: including painting, photography, time-based media, installation, and design. By integrating research with experimental, hybrid art forms, Eric explores themes of symbiotic duality and paradox. In particular, their recent works examine the intersections and proximity between the East and the West, while challenging the conventional notion of the West versus the East or the East-West dichotomy.
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