| The exhibition Human/Nature presents work by four Canadian artists, Liz Ingram, Amy Loewan, Lyndal Osborne and Laura Vickerson to the Chinese cities of Shanghai and Hong Kong. All four of these artists communicate on personal and spiritual levels about the nature of the self, the nature of nature and the importance of integrating the human and natural worlds. What motivates and inspires them as human beings is experienced universally across the planet, as concerns of others become theirs as well. Everyday, as communication systems expand, our world grows smaller. Technology transforms experience for us all, yet it threatens to reduce distance and difference to electrons flickering across a computer screen. Against this danger of dematerialization, these artists make work that is profoundly engaged with the “stuff” of material and natural worlds. |
