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EXHIBIT D (THE CHINATOWN GATE THAT COULD HAVE BEEN)
Shellie Zhang

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Shellie Zhang (b. 1991, Beijing, China) is a multidisciplinary artist based in Tkaronto/Toronto, Canada. She creates images, objects, and projects in a wide range of media to explore how integration, diversity, and assimilation are implemented and negotiated, and how manifestations of these ideas relate to lived experiences. Zhang is interested in how culture is learned and sustained, and how the objects and iconographies of culture are remembered and preserved.

Exhibit D (The Chinatown Gate That Could Have Been) is part of a series of photos examining whom the distance of time comforts and the power of local history. This image, in particular, focuses on a commemorative Chinatown gate that was proposed yet never actualized in Saskatoon’s new Chinatown, after the initial Chinatown neighbourhood was displaced for municipal projects. The diverse neighbourhoods’ of Canada’s urban centres are often celebrated as a mark of the nation’s cultural richness yet this often overshadows the systemic reasons why persecuted communities had to establish enclaves as a means of survival.

This artwork location has been generously provided by Richcraft.


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