The Blue Building was pleased to host how to be…excerpts from how to be 57, 2018 a solo exhibition of work by lucie chan.

An Artist Talk was held in the gallery on Saturday, May 30th from 1:30-2:30pm. The artist, lucie chan was in conversation with Gallery Director, Emily Falencki.

The exhibition, How to be… centred 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.