Photo Credit: LF Documentation
At Your Convenience
May 3 — July 26, 2025
https://yyzartistsoutlet.org/exhibitions/anran-guo-at-your-convenience/
The kitchen is a site of quiet transactions, where care is enacted through labor. Objects facilitate these gestures, absorbing the traces of touch until they are too worn, too stained, too inconvenient to keep. The moment passes, the offering is taken, and what remains is discarded without ceremony. Stripped of their function, they exist in a tension between preservation and disposal, memory and neglect. Reshaped and distorted, they refuse to settle into usefulness or disappearance. Their forms linger in an uneasy state, neither wholly present nor entirely gone—suspended between the tenderness of past service and the inevitability of abandonment.
At Your Convenience interrogates the shifting value of objects and the unseen labor embedded within them. Through acts of transformation, the works expose the fragility of care—how it is extended, received, and ultimately withdrawn. What remains is not just what is forgotten, but what refuses to be erased.
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Anran Guo: At Your Convenience
With speakers Carlo Cesta, Lisa Neighbour, and Anran Guo, moderated by Wang Zi, this panel takes At Your Convenienceas a point of departure to explore how artists engage with domestic objects through acts of holding, altering, and remembering. The conversation will consider how material gestures carry emotional and political weight, negotiating the tension between care and abandonment. Panelists will reflect on technique as a form of meaning, and on the complexities of working with objects that resist disappearance. Lingering Service asks how art can hold space for what lingers, for what remains unresolved, unrepaired, and insistently present.
Graphic Design: Wang Zi
