Opening: Lijun Chao & Andy Holliday: The Other Side

Chao and Holliday’s recent collaborative works examine boundaries, distance, and place. Borders serve as a transitional space that separate and define distinct realities and ensure there is always an “other side”. Crossing these boundaries has inherent costs such as energy, connection, time, and closeness. The other side embodies everything that our current location is not. It exists tangibly but also as an imagined ideal that is both perfect and frightening, holding our hopes and anxieties, aspirations, and nostalgia. The other side also signifies memory, loss, and longing. For some, it represents home. The Other Side will be in our Martin McDonald Hall from June 6 – July 26, 2025.