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

An Artist Talk will be held in the gallery on Saturday, May 30th from 1:30-2:30pm. The artist, lucie chan will be in conversation with Gallery Director, Emily Falencki. Seating will be provided and questions are encouraged. All are welcome.

The exhibition, How to be… centres 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.