How have notions of house and home changed since the end of the last century? How do artists represent these changes in their art?
From the increasingly blurred boundaries between work and play to the array of new ‘smart home’ gadgetry available to home owners, and from the condensed living quarters of new condos to the new strategies working parents create to occupy their latch key children, the changing nature of what constitutes ‘the domestic’ is never far away from the daily news.
Surrey Art Gallery presents the exhibition series Dwelling consisting of Yam Lau: Room, Sitely Premises, and Domestic Lives: Works from the Permanent Collection, which explore the inner and outer limits of `the domestic’.
Yam Lau: Room combines photography, video and digital animation to represent intimate domestic spaces. Sitely Premises looks back over the past five decades at innovative artwork situated in the exterior spaces of West Coast single family homes. Domestic Lives: Works from the Permanent Collection explores the many relationships people have to their homes, in a wide variety of media.
All three exhibitions officially launch tomorrow with an artist talk and opening reception, and continue into June.
The free artist talk with Toronto-based artist Yam Lau takes place April 9, 2-5:30 p.m.
A curator’s tour with Jordan Strom and Brian Foreman takes place April 21, 7:30-9 p.m.
