Leelee Chan: Silica Meadows

Four years after her solo debut at Capsule Shanghai, Leelee Chan returns with Silica Meadows from October 7th to October 28th. The exhibition features a selection of recent sculptures that deepens the artist's on-going exploration of how human desire and imagination govern the meaning and value ascribed to material objects, and how geography and culture mutually influence each other. At the core of Chan's latest inquiry is silica, one of earth's most abundant chemical compounds found commonly as quartz and in sand, as well as in the obsidian, manufactured glass, petrified wood, and marble varieties that figure in Chan's sculptural forms. Drawing on the physical properties and cultural meaning of silica's diverse manifestations, Chan presents a new set of evocative works that intersect the architectural, biomorphic, and geological to reflect on the fate of matter in the face of humanity's relentless pursuit of material expansion and abundance.