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#NEWMEDIAART
#EXHIBITIONS
If you['d] like a drink, then a Klein bottle is not the recommended receptacle. It may look vaguely like a bottle, but it doesn't enclose any volume, which means that it can't actually hold any liquid. Whatever you pour "in" will just come back out again.

— Marianne Freiberger, "Introducing the Klein bottle"
CURATED BY BELINDA KWAN
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filling the Klein bottle is an exhibition series that explores tourism and its alternative dimensions. Using mathematic ideas of space and time, artists Xuan Ye and Wenxin Zhang find parallels in past, present, and future landscapes—real and imagined. The desire, or thirst, for travel becomes their main topic. Looking into the sensory links between math and memory, their installations bring out dream-like thoughts on what it means to travel through space-time.

Image: Xuan Ye, The Spectacles Before Us Were Indeed Sublime: Coda, 2018. Cropped video still, two channel 4K video (b/w, stereo sound) and installation. Courtesy of the artist.

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Varley Art Gallery of Markham
February 15, 2020
–April 26, 2020

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three sacred mountains in the east sea 
the river flows out to the ocean
the cruise ship sets sail 
​river to
ocean flows cruising sailing out

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InterAccess
March 4, 2020
–September 26, 2020
book an appointment with the gallery here.

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Bunker 2 CAC
TBA, online exhibition to be launched mid-October

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Background Video: Wenxin Zhang, Strange Water, 2019. 4K video and installation. Courtesy of the artist.
Curated by Belinda Kwan.
Copyright © 2020 Belinda Kwan, Wenxin Zhang, Xuan Ye

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