Shanzhai Lyric: LOOSELY ASSEMBLED CYCLE 3: J’ai besoin d’a Of North 1986
SBC Gallery, Montreal
May 25 – August 2, 2019
Western ideology fetishizes originality. We slaver after the figure of the genius; we relish the ego of the Artist made manifest in the proper name. The Artist is trailed by their original works, works that orbit the Artist as the Artist’s canon. More often than not, exhibitions revolve around individuals who are given title credit for their work, as if each piece were Athena sprung from the skull of a virtuosic Zeus. But what lies between individualistic original creation (which turns the artist into a derivative of God) and the blatant, appropriative rip-off (which we rightfully
