Christie Contemporary is pleased to present Kyoto: An Exercise in Convergence, a new, site-specific installation by Yam Lau, from January 11 to February 8, with an opening reception on Saturday, January 18.

A framework is a structural envelope, whether a kind of container for the properties of a concept or the outer support of a physical entity. It may be apprehended as a first step or a final limit, but is invariably a periphery delineating an outside and an inside. With Kyoto: An Exercise in Convergence, Yam Lau directs our view to the fluctuations at the site of this periphery — looking from the inside out, the outside in. He enacts a perceptual conundrum that resolves itself in the act of looking, and in the same instant, pinpoints a condition of flux, a constant reverberation that attempts to fit within the limits of the frame.