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Kai Chan was born in China in 1940 and has lived in Canada since 1966. With a light hand, and tongue in cheek, Chan interprets our times through his graceful constructions of poetic simplicity. He recovers discarded objects of the everyday only to place them in a context that endows them with metaphysical strength. Glass fragments from broken bottles that litter the streets may be emblematic of waste and disregard of the environment, but when they are incorporated into his sculptures, they are transformed. The intrinsic beauty of light reflected in the cutting line of a glass shard becomes a ray of hope in the midst of desolation. Chan's work has been shown extensively across Canada, the United States, Europe, Japan and Australia. His work is in the collections of Galerie Ra, Amsterdam, the Nordenfjeldske Kunstindustrimusem, Norway, The Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, le Musée des beaux-arts de Montréal, among others.
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