Daily Lives: Chinese Culture Center is Present at Yerba Buena Center for the Arts

Daily Lives is an exhibition that considers the question of material objects in everyday life, held at the Yerba Buena Center for the Arts.

Daily Lives is an exhibition that considers the question of material objects in everyday life. Inspired by artist Song Dong’s investigations of family, consumerism, and the small meditative moments that punctuate an ordinary life, Daily Lives is a group exhibition curated by Abby Chen and borne of a collaboration between YBCA’s Community Engagement Department and the Chinese Culture Center. Featuring the mixed media work of local Asian-American artists Sita Kuratomi Bhaumik, Jennifer Ewing, Cynthia Tom, Liu Xianbiao, Imin Yeh and Stella Zhang, Daily Lives examines the reality and occasional sublimity of everyday existence through a variety of sensory experiences. Temporarily but officially, the Room for Big Ideas exists as an extension of the Chinese Culture Center: a reciprocal arrangement that locally reprises and re-contextualizes thematic and formal elements of Song Dong’s exhibit while charting new territory in the investigation of ephemera and memory. Curated by Chinese Culture Center’s Artistic Director Abby Chen.