Imagining Fusang
Imagining Fusang: Exploring Chinese and Indigenous Encounters is a group exhibition at the Art Gallery of Greater Victoria that takes its title from the 7th Century Chinese legend of Fusang, which describes the travels of a Buddhist monk, Hui shen, by ship along the coast of the Americas in the latter part of the 5th Century.
The artists in this exhibition explore — and speculate upon — early encounters and interactions between Indigenous peoples and Chinese communities that settled on Vancouver Island. While little historical and archaeological evidence exists to support the legend of Fusang, this exhibition draws on this legend as an allegory to re-consider the terms of cross-cultural relations.
Featuring artists: Francisco Camacho Herrera, Haa’yuups (Ron Hamilton), Gwenessa Lam, Rick Leong, Diana Leung and Kamala Todd.
June 29, 2019 September 29, 2019
Curated By Haema Sivanesan | Founders and Drury Galleries