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Looking and Laughing: Ken Lum at the Vancouver Art Gallery
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Looking and Laughing: Ken Lum at the Vancouver Art Gallery

Volume 10, Number 6, November/December 2011
by Jamie Hilder


Article Description

Ken Lum’s recent survey at the Vancouver Art Gallery is reviewed by Jamie Hilder, who traces a distinct continuity in Lum’s employment of strategies that engage the viewer in a self-conscious and, at times, discomforting reading of his work. Lum demonstrates a particular propensity towards combining humour with sobering sociocultural issues that result in work that is immediately approachable yet provocatively disorienting.


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