Bridget Lu / 晓茶 Grocery

Window Box Gallery – Gallery 1313

1313 Queen St. West www.g1313.org

Sept. 1 /22- Nov. 1 /22

Installation – Clay , Paint , Photography 2021

In exploring the demarcation of exoticism and otherness in international food aisles, Grocery interjects sculpted replicas of cultural foods into their broader corresponding food categories. Photographed in Walmart grocery aisles, Lu deconstructs habitual exotification by asserting that sesame oil is oil, black rice vinegar is vinegar, and shrimp chips are chips. The disruption of imposed otherness re-envisions the potential of cultural foods in building, diversifying, and nourishing communities.

Bridget Lu/ 晓茶 is a Chinese-Canadian artist, science enthusiast, and aspiring medical illustrator. Her practice includes painting, sculpture, printmaking, and digital media— often taking form in multi-media works. Lu explores and integrates cultural identity, design practices and biological concepts— currently focusing on the generational loss of culture through diasporic migration and the use of everyday scenes and objects.

Curated by: Cecily Ou.

"Grocery for a Community".

This exhibition is part of Reimaging Urban Spatiality.

Reimaging Urban Spatiality is a year-long curatorial project led by Ella Taylor and Cecily Ou in the Window Box Gallery at Gallery 1313 in Toronto. The project consists of six 2-month shows which will include the curatorial response of Ella Taylor and Cecily Ou, along with four other selected curators/ artists.

Working with the constraints of the Window Box Gallery at Gallery 1313, this project aims to navigate current discussions of — and interventions in, urban space. With the idea of spatial limits in mind, Ella and Cecily ask participating curators/artists to reflect on the following questions:

What are the links between the constraints of urban space and the cultural sector? How can/are emerging curators/artists/practitioners approaching these limits to take up space with intentionality, positionality, and care? How do we re-envision and renegotiate our relationship to the limits of the urban landscape and the cultural landscape?

: https://www.gofundme.com/f/funds-for-creatives-reimaging-urban-spatiality.