This brilliant, mixed media installation uses laboratory equipment, 3D printed objects and other material to examine gender and vulnerability associated with childhood memory. It’s a response by this artist to their early experiences of gender discrimination in China.
When I was in middle school, my chemistry teacher prohibited his female students, including myself, from using the laboratory. I was taught that studying chemistry, physics, and math was unnecessary because girls were not naturally gifted at those subjects. . . I set up a blue environment for my installation to take place because I see blue as an open door to freedom.
Chun Hua Catherine Dong
Chun Hua Catherine Dong (she/they) is a Chinese-born Tiohtià:ke/ Montréal-based multimedia artist. Dong received an MFA at Intermedia from Concordia University and a BFA at Visual Art from Emily Carr University Art & Design in Canada. A frequent exhibitor, they have shown across Canada and in the U.S., France, Mexico, China, England and South Korea.
Dong’s practice is in performance art, photography, video, VR, AR, and 3D printing within the contemporary context of global feminism. Their video work has been screened in Brazil, Bulgaria, Canada, China, Colombia, Croatia, Denmark, Finland, Germany, Greece, Indonesia, Ireland, Italy, Mexico, the Netherlands, Poland, Romania, Scotland, Spain, Sweden, UK, and the U.S.
Their website, here.
Image at top: 10ft x 8ft x 6ft (305cm x 244cm x 183cm), installation view of exhibition at Art Gallery of Hamilton, 2023
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