A Convergent Evolution of Wet Places

A Convergent Evolution of Wet Places imagines new media works by Amy Ching-Yan Lam, Christopher Lacroix and Tommy Ting as anticipatory relics of “wet places.” The figures of the fountain, the bathroom and the public bath rendered by the three artists are gathered here and read as fragments of a typological blurring. Taking up theorists Beatriz Colomina and Mark Wigley’s polemic that the bathroom has become closed to architectural experiment, this exhibition speculates “wet places” as hybrid, communal queer spaces that recover for bathrooms elements of sociality and play.

Union Gallery and GHY Cheung would like to thank the Ontario Arts Council for supporting this project through the Curatorial Projects: Indigenous and Culturally Diverse program.

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