Notes and Photos from Vancouver International Centre for Contemporary Asian Art

Lam Wong is the current Artist-in-Residence at the Dr. Sun Yan-Sen Classical Chinese Garden. His inaugural exhibition of the year-long residency was Chaji in 2019-2020. Soon after, Lam Wong began his next exhibition: The World Is As Soft As A Volcano: A Moving Composition, at the Vancouver International Centre for Contemporary Asian Art. What's fascinating is that every week of the two-month long exhibition, the art work will be re-organized as per the artist's wishes. Read on to learn more about this ongoing show.

王藝林是溫哥華中山公園的駐館藝術家。結束了在中山公園的「茶寂」聯合藝展後，他開始了於溫哥華國際當代亞洲藝術中心舉辦的藝術展「世界與火山一般柔軟：一場移動的組成」。與其它展覽不同的是，作品在為期近兩個月的展覽期間，每週按照藝術家的指示被重新組合。

Expressed in painting and installation, ​the world is as soft as a volcano: a moving composition​ by ​Lam Wong​ encompasses personal struggles and familial experience as agents of introspection. A collection of Wong’s recent works and part of his ongoing research into the notion of “emotional refuge,” the project delineates a delicate and hidden sense/state of being, communicated through the aftermaths of traumas, suffering, and grief.

Over the course of the exhibition, the artworks will be rearranged once a week as an evolving cartography of sentiments in accordance with instructions given by the artist.

Lam Wong​ is an artist, designer and curator based in Vancouver, B.C. An immigrant from Hong Kong during the 1980s, Wong studied design, art history and painting, both in Alberta and British Columbia. He is currently practicing painting and tea-related artwork as his main media. Wong sees art-making as an ongoing spiritual practice. His main areas of interest lie in the perception of reality, the meaning of art, and the relationships between time, memory and space. Lam has lived and worked in Vancouver since 1998.

《世界與火山一般柔軟：一場移動的組成》收集了王藝林（Lam Wong）的近期作品和他一直以来對「情感避難所」概念的部分研究成果，將個人奮鬥和家族經歷作為自省的媒介，並以繪畫和裝置的形式表達出來。此項目利用創傷，苦難和悲痛的種種後果，描繪出一種微妙而隱秘的存在狀態。展出的作品將按照藝術家的指示，在整個展覽過程中每週一次被重新組合，形成不斷變化的情感地圖。

王藝林是一名藝術家，設計師和策展人，1980年代從香港移民，現居溫哥華。其曾在阿爾伯塔省和卑詩省學習設計，藝術史和繪畫，目前以繪畫和與茶有關的藝術創作作為主要媒介。他將藝術創作視為一種持續的精神實踐，主要興趣領域在於對現實的感知，藝術的意義，以及時間、記憶、空間之間的關係。