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Ed Pien

The exhibition, Memento, is a walk-through environment created from knotted ropes, paper-cut silhouettes, video projections, rotating mirrors, sand-bags, shadows, and sound. In the dim light, the visitor plunges into another world, navigating their way amidst the shadows beneath a rope net canopy, while projected images spin around the gallery walls.

Memento poignantly reflects on the displaced, forgotten, and unseen. It is a continuation of Pien’s interest in the otherworldly, invisibility, disappearance, and journeys.

5 February – 2 April 2011

The artist Ed Pien was born in Taiwan and moved to Canada aged 11. Memento was developed from his research into the plight of illegal immigrants who take great risks in the hope of achieving a better life. These people often have to live 'ghost-like', hidden from society, such as the Chinese cockle pickers in Morecambe Bay, the 'Faujis' from India living in the UK without identities, and the thousands of North Africans who try to cross the Mediterranean in small boats, some of whom perish on the way.

Ed Pien has exhibited internationally including at the Drawing Centre, New York; La Biennale de Montreal; Centro Nacional de las Artes, Mexico City; plAAy, Blackburn (UK); The Goethe Institute, Berlin; and Himalya Art Gallery, Chongqing, China.

This exhibition is a contribution to Lancaster Chinese New Year Festival

Memento was commissioned by the Chinese Art Centre in Manchester

 


Ed Pien gave a Talk on Art at the exhibition opening on 4 February.

Storey Gallery has been successfully delivering Talks on Art for a number of years, and is now pleased to make a complete talk available to a much wider audience. See below.