How to be… excerpts from how to be 57, 2018 May 2nd — June 13th, 2026

The exhibition will centre on lucie chan’s 2018 installation, how to be 57. A massive, paper-based installation that exemplifies chan’s practice of expanded drawing. Created in 2018 in response to stories gathered from numerous sources — including one-on-one interviews with strangers, conversation with people, and responses to listening to the news — how to be 57 is a collection of works bearing witness to stories that chan describes as, “far from my own…that point to inequities and human fragility.” The title of the work derives from a focus the project takes on two 57-year-old women’s experiences with the police.