DENNIS LIN

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Untitled

2022
Bread rack, vitrine, fire remnants
10'h x 12'w x 24'd
I’m Not Welcome

I’m Not Welcome is a creative endeavour that concerns a house fire that took place in 2021 at Lin’s property in Kimberly, Ontario, ravaging nearly every material possession. Works in varying degrees of injury or repair include large stones that have been mended with bronze caps that were cast from their shed material. This work digests the ordinary and inhospitable layers of grief through the methodical and compulsive practise of material processing. I’m Not Welcomeis a collection, processing station and care ward that diarizes and mends things lost and stolen.

A 10-foot tower of repurposed Weston bread racks is filled with ashen kitchen-wares, pools of molten aluminum, a petrified nest of electrical wire, and charred bits of paper and cloth. A few feet away stands an equally soaring and industrial vibrating sifter. When put to work, the sieve sighs and exhales a percussive range of hums, rattles and clangs; sounds that harken back to the notion that, through this work, Lin is constructing industry-like fabrication systems that mimic his own highly productive and energetic praxis.