AA Foundation tutors Michael and Chiyan Ho Intra-action: Part 2 have launched a new exhibition with the gallery Soft Opening which will run until the 11th July in Piccadilly Circus Underground Station.

'Michael and Chiyan Ho’s paintings butt Eastern and Western iconography against one another as a means to think through the complex questions surrounding otherness, assimilation and belonging. As second generation Chinese immigrants living in the UK, the duo’s collaborative approach to making emerges from the desire to locate a dialectical space in which to think through their individual and shared experiences living within a predominantly white society. Both trained as architects, their practice is research-driven and traverses different mediums as a way to explore aspects of identity and issues of race. Michael and Chiyan Ho’s collaborations shift focus away from the individual, revealing what can emerge from working interdependently.'

'Placing Chinese diasporic experience at the heart of their practice, Michael and Chiyan Ho’s paintings can be understood as a form of cultural articulation, and re-articulation. Always in the presence of one another’s ideas and criticisms, the essence of their methodology sits within a process of self-reflexive discourse.'

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