Ginger Chimes
2024
Ginger Chimes presented at Joys Gallery, Toronto (2024) presents a new body of work spanning sculpture, textile, metallurgy, silverwork, painting and installation. Exploring individual and shared experiences with AAPI (Asian American Pacific Islander) identity and diaspora, Ginger Chimes explores growth, community, and tactility through a poetic vocabulary of forms. Using the medium of spalted maple wood, a series of abstracted sculptural ‘bodies’ are formed influenced by stories shared from AAPI experiences. Each body sculpture is enveloped in naturally dyed and pleated textiles, interweaving stories of body, identity and memory through the collaborative work. Akin to the rhizomatic roots of ginger, the logic of the work extends horizontally, forming numerous and nebulous connections that perpetuate balance and a spirit of interdependence. Photos by Marisa Musing, Jennifer Laflamme & Dhvani Ramanujam.
