Unfolding and Enfolding 折與磨
Artists: Lam Tung Pang, Tiffany Law
Curator: Olivia Chow
Duration: February 28–March 28, 2026
Opening reception: February 28, Saturday, 2–5pm
Venue: Canton-sardine, 071–268 Keefer St, Vancouver
Gallery hours: Wed–Sat 12–6pm
This exhibition explores the performance of the human body and its relationship to landscape. It takes the form of an immersive composition of fragmented bodily forms, presented through recordings of breathing and stretching exercises and gestural illustrations of caves and mountains, folding the body and landscape together. The repetitive labour, flexibility, and endurance involved in both bodily poses and material processes allude to practices of release and self-regulation, as an embodied metaphor for social and institutional participation in everyday life.
The site-specific installation offers an invitation to mindfulness, encouraging viewers to slow down and attune to the rhythmic and meditative qualities of the space. Viewers are both physically and conceptually situated as part of the landscape, reflecting on the interdependence of the human body and the land it inhabits.
Marking the first collaboration between Lam Tung Pang and Tiffany Law, the exhibition developed through conversations with curator Olivia Chow, shaped by shared experiences of migration and belonging.
About the Artists
Lam Tung Pang (b. 1978, Hong Kong) works across painting, installation, and media. Guided by a curious imagination, his practice brings together traditional iconography, vernacular imagery, and found materials to create layered, allegorical landscapes. Through recurring motifs of journeys and changing environments, his work examines relationships between nature, history, and memory, considering how movement across time and space informs experience.
Lam’s work is held in major public and private collections, including the Asian Art Museum; the Burger Collection; Deutsche Bank; the Hong Kong Museum of Art; the Kadist Art Foundation; the Los Angeles County Museum of Art; M+; the Royal Bank of Canada; and the Vancouver Art Gallery, among others. Recent exhibitions include a solo presentation at the Asian Art Museum (2022) and group exhibitions at the Seattle Asian Art Museum (2022) and the Crow Museum of Asian Art at the University of Texas (2024). Lam is based between Hong Kong and Vancouver.
Tiffany Law (b. 1994, Hong Kong) is a visual artist whose practice centres on drawing and printmaking. Her work approaches mark-making as both a material process and a conceptual framework for constructing personal archives that reflect on loss and existence. Through repetitive and durational gestures, Law examines how time is registered through the labouring body, and its relationship to geological time and land formation.
Law received her BA in Visual Arts from Hong Kong Baptist University and her MFA from the University of British Columbia. Her work has been supported by the Audain Foundation and the Hong Kong Arts Development Council. Recent exhibitions include a solo presentation at Access Gallery, Vancouver (2025), and at WURE Area, Hong Kong (2024), as well as a group exhibition at the Morris and Helen Belkin Art Gallery, Vancouver (2024). She lives and works in Vancouver, on the unceded territories of the xʷməθkʷəy̓əm, Sḵwx̱wú7mesh, and səlilwətaɬ Nations.
About the Curator
Olivia Chow is Director of Curatorial Programs at the Chinese Canadian Museum. Her work centres on dialogue with Chinese Canadian and diasporic communities, exploring intergenerational narratives, Asian diasporic histories, and artist-led collaboration. Before joining CCM in 2025, she spent over a decade in Hong Kong, most recently as Assistant Curator at M+, where she curated major projects including Trevor Yeung: Courtyard of Attachments (2024) and Shirley Tse: Stakeholders (2019), both presented as Hong Kong’s Collateral Events at the Venice Biennale. She previously held curatorial roles at Para Site, Hong Kong, and The Works Art and Design Festival in Edmonton.
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