Anne Low
Chair for a woman
January 18 to March 24, 2019
B.C. Binning Gallery

Chair for a woman is Anne Low’s first solo exhibition in a Canadian public gallery. As her practice is responsive to the (imagined) past lives of the architectural spaces in which she exhibits, and given that the Contemporary Art Gallery was purpose built rather than an adapted storefront or former home, Low saw this exhibition as an opportunity to consider the ways of seeing that are specific to exhibitions, and in particular, to those systems of presentation cultivated by decorative arts museums. How do we regard a piece of furniture once it has been removed from use and what knowledge becomes severed in that process? Chair for a woman prompts us to consider that act of looking in its simultaneous reference to and disruption of those strategies of display.