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Candice Lin

hrough her installation-based practice, Candice Lin aims to “think into being ‘matters absent, entangled, and unavailable,’” she explains, citing race and migration scholar Lisa Lowe. This was evident in a pair of Lin’s 2019 solo (2018) attests to the unstable histories of dehumanization—specifically, slavery and coolie labor—as well as colonization, so often wiped from canonical books.

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