Between Us, A Vessel Grows
Richmond Art Gallery, Richmond, BC (2024)
For: It begins with knowing and not knowing Exhibition Programming
Invited by:
Zoë Chan
Photo Credits: Tuck Abbott, Arefeh Saberi
Workshop documentation of Between Us, A Vessel Grows, Richmond Art Gallery, Richmond, BC, 2024. Photo credit: Quinton Qiu.
Collaborative Workshop
Materials: Terracotta clay
Pinching is a building technique of compressing clay between fingers and thumb to build height and volume. In this collaborative workshop, Che invites participants to pinch slabs of clay together in silence. Sensing the clay’s thickness between their own and one another’s fingertips, a solitary act becomes a collective exercise in close listening, negotiation, and support.
The resulting wave forms are a visible record of tactile communication between participants. Slumps, folds, and ruptures mark moments of imbalance, when an initiation is not fully supported. Graceful curves and extensions emerge when collaborators listen closely through their hands, ready to both initiate and receive.
Xinwei Che, Between Us, A Vessel Grows. Richmond Art Gallery, Richmond, BC, 2024. Photo credit: Quinton Qiu.
Xinwei Che, Between Us, A Vessel Grows. Richmond Art Gallery, Richmond, BC, 2024. Photo credit: Quinton Qiu.