Vancouver-based artist Karilynn Ming Ho brings her artwork For the Left Hand Alone at Richmond Art Gallery from April 6 to May 27. One piece of her artwork will also be displayed at Canada Line’s Lansdowne station.
For the Left Hand Alone uses the metaphor of phantom limb syndrome, a condition in which people who have had a limb amputated continue to feel sensations as if the limb were still there.
“It is about the idea of feeling there is something there, but nothing is actually there,” Ho told the Richmond News.
The main part of the exhibit is a video installation composed of four stories about technology and how it creates a sense of a reality that doesn’t actually exist.
“The installation is about the way technology deceives us and makes us think in different ways. We don’t know what is real,” Ho said. “What is real in the digital world?”
For example, one story is about a woman who falls in love online with what she thinks is a man, but in fact that “man” is a boat but technology has given her the sense of being in a genuine romantic relationship.
The gallery also provides a series of free multilingual guided tours at the Canada Line installations. Visit Richmond Art Gallery’s website for detailed information.
