The Blue Building is pleased to announce the opening of how to be…excerpts from how to be 57, 2018 a new solo exhibition of work by lucie chan.

how to be… will open with a daytime reception at the gallery on Saturday May 2nd from 3pm - 5pm. The artist will be in attendance and all are welcome.

The exhibition will centre on chan’s 2018 installation, how to be 57. A massive, paper-based installation that exemplifies chan’s practice of expanded drawing. Created in 2018 in response to stories gathered from numerous sources — including one-on-one interviews with strangers, conversation with people, and responses to listening to the news — how to be 57 is a collection of works bearing witness to stories that chan describes as, “far from my own…that point to inequities and human fragility.”

The title of the work derives from a focus the project takes on two 57-year-old women’s experiences with the police. Re-assembled in 2026, the exhibition asks audiences to consider how the stories and experiences chan responded to in 2018 have been remembered and how they remain relevant today.