Patty Chang @ Queens Museum, New York, US

BANK is proud to announce the opening of Patty Chang's solo exhibition, The Wandering Lake, 2009 - 2017 at Queens Museum in New York City on 17th September and continuing through 18th Feb, 2018. This exhibition will present Chang's most ambitious work to date, The Wandering Lake, a project that redefines the role of artist, image, object and performance in the construction of narratives. Sections of this workmade their debut in BANK earlier this year, as well as in the 2016 Shanghai Biennial. The Wandering Lake, integrating video, photography, sculpture, a special publication, and performance, is being presented for the first time as a complete and expansive project at the Queens Museum.

The exhibition has been structured to replicate the complex way in which stories develop through geography, history, cultural mythology, fiction, and personal experience. While Chang’s multi-year project was in part inspired by turn-of-the-century colonial explorer Sven Hedin’s book The Wandering Lake (1938)—which tells the story of a migrating body of water in the Chinese desert—the project also chronicles the loss of Chang’s father as well as her pregnancy and the birth of her son.