Ken Lum: Shopkeeper Series

AbbasN — Tue, 10 Jun 2008 11:19:26 -0400

Since his first solo exhibition in New York in 1982, Chinese-Canadian artist Ken Lum has developed a complex body of work that includes Furniture-Sculptures, Portrait-Logos, Language Paintings, Photo-Mirrors and Shopkeeper series works. All of his work involves the dialectics of private and public constructions of identity, space and politics, especially as they relate to image production in contemporary urban society.

Ken Lum

Ken Lum, There is no place like home, Kunsthalle Vienna, 2000-2001

AbbasN — Tue, 10 Jun 2008 10:21:39 -0400

Ken Lum has produced a many-sided, controversial and politically highly charged work which makes use of advertising imagery and linguistic devices. Clear, simple sentences are brought into connection with photos creating a variety of meanings and associations.

Ken Lum