Across Distance from the Sun
A program of:
Dwelling Under Distant Suns
This online program series positions waterways and solar rays as art spaces, focusing on the imaginaries attached to both forces in conversation with the practices of the exhibiting artists, Solveig Qu Suess, Alvin Luong and Kent Chan. The fluid modality of water destabilizes the bounded imaginaries attached to discrete rivers, basins, and oceans. The heat and light of the Sun bypasses fixed notions of geography and culture, opening up interminable and indeterminate spaces whose meaning can be reinscribed. The artists in the exhibition foreground these spaces as sites viable for varied degrees of speculative interventions while forming conversations surrounding migration, statecraft and climate change.
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Program Schedule
Bounded Time, Endless Becomings
Friday, October 31, 10:30am–12pm
Featuring Solveig Qu Suess and Weixian Pan
Formed through clusters, the conversation brings stories from the basins while diving into the varied sets of hydroelectric imaginaries mediated by visual media and the difficulties of representing environmental and developmental precarities that occur across temporal and spatial distances.
Land Bodies, Liquid Skins
Wednesday, November 19, 11am–12:30pm
Featuring Alvin Luong and Tausif Noor
This discussion focuses on the consistent methodologies behind Luong’s new commission, Cyanide Debt (2025), in dialogue with another body of work, Before I was Coral, I was Refugee (2024-ongoing).
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Image: Installation view: Dwelling Under Distant Suns, curated by Yantong Li, September 4–December 20, 2025, Justin M. Barnicke Gallery. Photo: Dominic Chan.
