Tishan Hsu
Interface Remix

Between the edges of our bodies and devices, between skin and screen, sweat and polymer, object and orifice, Tishan Hsu’s evocations produce an erotics of technology through an expansive visual vocabulary that can be difficult to parse.

Hsu’s first exhibition in Canada, curated by Kate Wong, surveys work from the 1980s to the present, including painting, sculpture, drawing, and a site-specific wrap of the museum’s industrial architecture. Installed without chronology to productive effect, there is resounding aesthetic consistency across the decades: in nearly all his work, tongues, limbs, hands, eyeballs, spinal cords, anuses, gaping mouths, or ambiguously fleshy appendages appear contained within or bursting through taut, stretched surfaces.