Coffee Kang and Evelyn Hang Yin. to draw a house

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Working across video, sound, photography, and installation, the two artists engage with the narrative of Chinese diasporas in the U.S. by meditating on the action of drawing a house while exploring the relationships between history and fiction, destiny and agency, socio-political landscapes and personal struggles around migration. The exhibited work traverses archives, artifacts, and sites in the Western United States that once housed Chinese diasporas. All that remains lies in the carvings sealed by layers of paint meant to erase them, on the coaching papers washed away by rushing waves, between the punched holes of pakapoo tickets, under the accumulated incense ashes, and by the stone walls where miners once resided and dreamed.