THE OPENING — THIS WEEK’S PICKS
Alex Quicho, Vancouver is Awesome
The ever-prolific Howie Tsui‘s latest offering, Celestials of Gold Mountain, attempts to subvert the problematic yet widely-accepted portrayal of early Chinese immigrants as nondescript, victimized, and hapless labourers by portraying them as mythic beings.
“Conversely,” Tsui adds, “these exaggerated otherworldly depictions may further perpetuate the view of this ethnic group as a monstrous and mysterious other.” Bend your head around Tsui’s richly-coloured, chimerical works at WAAP — a humble apartment space that has become one of our city’s most written-about and critically acclaimed galleries to date.