'Landsapes in Parallel'
A solo art show by Dominique Hui
June 22 - July 5, 2024
Gallery Hours : 11am - 8pm (Closed on Mondays)
Soft opening – Saturday June 22, 2-8pm
Official Opening - Thursday June 27, 4-8pm
Bio:
Dominique Hui was born in Singapore and moved to Canada in 1990. She received her BA (Hons) from the University of Guelph and Diploma from OCAD (Double major in Filmmaking and Drawing and Painting). Hui worked in film production companies in Singapore and Hong Kong after her graduation and relocated back to Toronto in 1998. Hui has exhibited in Japan, Singapore, Italy, Germany and Canada. Her work has been collected by the National Gallery Singapore and private collectors.
Description:
Dominique Hui presents a new series of landscape paintings that showcase Western and Eastern aesthetics side-by-side. These parallel perspectives are uniquely emphasized by the physical characteristics of oil and water mediums. Hui explores a painting language that interweaved both Eastern and Western parts of Canada and Eastern and Western philosophies through water-based and oil-based mediums.
Hui presents a ‘disturbed’ composition; the paintings reveal contradictory experiences of diasporic subjects who exist in parallel worlds. Hui’s landscapes illustrate the both/and of existing simultaneously in the East and West. These contemporary subjects are often invisible in Canadian history, and Hui subtlety displaces them in Canadian landscapes even as they enjoy the pleasures of simplicity. Hui’s paintings invite us to question Eastern vs. Western assumptions as we witness the uneven dynamics of cultural entanglement.
