A program of
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.
ABOUT THE PANELISTS
Carlo Cesta is a visual artist who lives and works in Toronto, Canada. His work has been included in public and private collections such as, Museum London, Winnipeg Art Gallery, the Macdonald Stuart Art Centre, the National Gallery of Canada Library and Archive, the Museum of Civilization, and the Art Gallery of Ontario.
Cesta is the co-founder of Beauty Supply, an independent gallery located in Toronto, Canada.
Lisa Neighbour was born in Montreal, Quebec, and now lives and works in Toronto, Ontario. She graduated from Ontario College of Art in 1982, and received an MFA from York University in 2009. She works in a variety of mediums and combinations including printmaking, drawing, video, animation and sculpture. Her interests include making t-shirts, swimming, therapeutic touch, travelling, making home remedies, and trying to communicate with animals and birds.
She is the co-founder of Beauty Supply, an independent gallery located in Toronto, Canada.
Anran Guo (b. 1996 Dalian, China) is a queer female artist and art educator based in Hamilton and Toronto. She holds a Master of Visual Studies in Studio Art and an Honours Bachelor of Arts in Art and Art History from the University of Toronto. Guo’s practice centers on sculpture and installation. Through the semiotic manipulation of visual information and the forms of found objects, she constructs visual fables and (counter-)monuments that offer layered critiques of social and political systems. Her practice is generously supported by the Ontario Arts Council.
ABOUT THE MODERATOR
Wang Zi 王紫 (b. Nanjing, China) is a Toronto-based artist-educator working across printed objects, performance, sound, and socially-engaged art. Informed by diasporic experience, family history, and linguistic and cultural misinterpretation, her works reconstruct artifacts and scenes to examine overlooked Compromises, unresolved perplexities, and acts of self-censorship. She has exhibited at the Ontario Legislative Assembly, Métis Space in Hong Kong, and Art Bank Canada. She also facilitated programs with Royal Ontario Museum, CAMH, City of Ottawa, and Toronto Public Library. Her recent research is supported by SSHRC and Toronto Arts Council.
