Interior/Periphery

Curator Christina Yao reflects on her own relationship with Chinatown as a recent Chinese immigrant.

Curatorial resident Christina Yao (Photography student) reflects on her relationship with Chinatown as a recent Chinese immigrant, which is marked by a curiously twinned sense of belonging and alienation. 

“Interior/Periphery” invites Kylie Fineday, Tomo Ingalls (MFA '22, Craft Media) and Raeann Kit-Yee Cheung, artists of Asian and Indigenous backgrounds, to consider the complexities of being both inside and outside — whether of a community, a place or one’s own body. 

“Interior/Periphery” is interested in the topography where “within” and “without” overlap and intertwine, and the works presented pursue this “in-between” in clay, beading, performance and photography.⁠

Image: “Wedding Cake,” Tomo Ingalls, Clay, 2022⁠
Hands, feet, and other body parts are made of raw clay and positioned into a three-layered wedding cake.⁠