 place 8444 Touch My Butt
digital chromogenic print, approx 10.5" x 13.5” $95 It's a polyglot culture, and most of us love that. But like many places in North America, we have a history of racial discrimination against immigrants. Chinese laborers were allowed in to build railroads and extract resources, but there were draconian legal barriers to prevent them settling here. During WWII, Japanese families—many of whom had lived here for generations and were citizens— were put in concentration camps, their properties seized and sold off. You still hear echoes of that when people talk about high housing prices, money laundering, and the easy availability of drugs. The Chinese reads "石厰" and "大地", Shíchǎng and Dàdì. Google suggests "Stone Factory" and "Earth.” Learn more about the artist and this show here. Comments are closed.
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