Adam Shiu-Yang Shaw‘s solo exhibition vinegar stone and the language of flowers at Toronto’s Towards Gallery opened August 3 and is running to August 26.
The Canadian-born, Berlin-based artist presents an installation using a number of materials, from corrugated plastic, reclaimed wood, sand and bamboo to snail shells, flowers and sink basins. Symbols, meanings, place and time converge to create a new meeting place.
The press release is a text written by Emma LaMorte, which is a letter exchange between two people who call each other ‘X.’ The feeling of separation and dreaming runs through the conversation, as they imagine another world that is in “the unknowing [and] in the uncertainty of life, the confusion of living”:
“So, I’ll see you in the tumble my friend, as we stumble onward. I’ll catch up with you as we float, blindly, weightlessly. Or I’ll run into you by chance, in a need. In a need for fluency. In a need for history. In a need to not need anything more.” **