Objective Objects:
An Exhibition Tour into the World of Tobias Wong
Join Cheryl Wong, Melanie Moreno and Mika Abele, graduates of the Emily Carr University of Art + Design curatorial program, for a tour of Tobias Wong’s work in the exhibition All We Want Is More: The Tobias Wong Project. Tobias Wong’s work spans art, design and performance, and uses his signature dark humor and wit to challenge how we think about everyday objects.
We invite you to hear our interpretations of the exhibition as we delve into the unique personality and life of Tobias Wong, and explore how he altered objects in unexpected ways to make clever statements. Through the critical lens of Wong’s work, we will examine definitions of value, mass consumption, and ask ourselves - is it possible to make original work?
Date: Thursday, June 29, 2023
Time: 6:00pm - 7:30pm
Tour: 6-7pm
Informal Q&A with Guides: 7-7:30pm
After the tour, attendees are welcome to ask the guides questions and/or browse the exhibition until 8pm.
Tickets: $25 General Admission, $20 Seniors (65+), MOV Members, Students (with ID)
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Meet Your Tour Guides!
Cheryl Wong
Cheryl Wong is an interdisciplinary creative practicing between art and design. Many of her works trace back to her cultural heritage and positionality as a bilingual speaker. She is interested in the relationship between human experience, sensory literacy, and the material world. Her continuously evolving practice explores different ways of making, storytelling, placemaking, and working with space. Cheryl holds a BDes in Communication Design with a Minor in Curatorial Practices from Emily Carr University of Art + Design.
Her section of the tour will focus on the intersecting relationship between art and design through modes of appropriation in Tobias Wong’s works, and questioning criterias of “originality” in contemporary society.
Melanie Moreno
Melanie Moreno is a bicultural, Ecuadorian Colombian writer and illustrator based in Vancouver. Her passion for art came from learning from her parents that worked in graphic design and photography. She pursued her education further at Emily Carr University of Art + Design and graduated with a BFA with a major in Critical + Cultural Practices and a minor in Curatorial Practices. She is currently volunteering at the Museum of Vancouver, learning about education and community program development while continuing to discover and develop her art practice.
Her tour focuses on learning about Tobias Wong as a person and artist from the perspective of his friends and peers and, simultaneously, noting his ingenuity, excellent timing and courage in art making when creating works that spoke about current events and critiqued the design world.
Mika Abele
Mika Abele is an interdisciplinary artist who is passionate about community engagement, teaching and learning, making, and rocks of all shapes and sizes. Mika’s work investigates queer experience in the natural world, and examines how magical realism can be a powerful framework for unlearning. Her making, writing and curatorial practices aim to connect people with their environment through imagination and joy.
Mika holds a BFA in Visual Arts with a minor in Curatorial Studies. Her section of the tour will focus on how Tobias Wong’s work examines ego, desire and luxury, and investigate how his work could inform our consumption practices and present day mass manufacturing crisis.