A Convergent Evolution of Wet Places
Image courtesy of GHY Cheung.
Amy Ching-Yan Lam, Tommy Ting, Christopher Lacroix
Curated by GHY Cheung
Project Room
June 9–August 29, 2026
A convergent evolution of wet places imagines new media works by Amy Ching-Yan Lam, Christopher Lacroix and Tommy Ting as anticipatory relics of “wet places.” The figures of the fountain, the bathroom and the public bath rendered by the three artists are gathered here and read as fragments of a typological blurring. Taking up theorists Beatriz Colomina and Mark Wigley’s polemic that the bathroom has become closed to architectural experiment, this exhibition speculates “wet places” as hybrid, communal queer spaces that recover for bathrooms elements of sociality and play.
Union Gallery and GHY Cheung would like to thank the Ontario Arts Council for supporting this project through the Curatorial Projects: Indigenous and Culturally Diverse program.
VISITOR RESOURCES
PDF download: WASHROOMS FOR ALL in collaboration with TO Toilet Code
Amy Ching-Yan Lam is an artist and writer. Her practice looks to recover shared experience and feeling from the ruling structures of violence. She uses quotidian materials (like institutional debris) and processes (like jokes). Books and memories are often at the centre of her projects. Exhibitions, performances, and screenings have been presented at The Goldfarb Gallery, York University (2025), Richmond Art Gallery (2023), Eastside Projects (2022), Seoul MediaCity Biennale (2021), SFU Galleries (2021), Centre Clark (2019), Truck Gallery (2018), aka artist-run (2018), the Western Front (2015), Art Gallery of Ontario (2013), and others. She is the author of Baby Book (2023), a finalist for the Governor General’s Literary Awards in Poetry; Property Journal (2024); and 83% Perfect (2025). Amy teaches creative writing in the English department of New York University. She was born in Hong Kong and lives in Lenapehoking / Brooklyn.
Christopher Lacroix is an artist whose work yields queer perspectives through conceptually and formally absurd explorations of materials and objects. These queer perspectives are often a blend of humour, refusal, and aspirations for alternative relations or futures. Lacroix received an MFA from the University of British Columbia (2018) and a BFA from Toronto Metropolitan University (2012). In 2018 he was awarded the Lind Prize for emerging lens-based artists, and was long-listed for the 2021 Scotiabank New Generation Photography Award.
TOMMY TING
Tommy Ting is a Toronto-based artist and game designer. His work explores sexuality, masculinity and labour through virtual worldbuilding, video games and technology. His recent games such as Club Baths and The Rawlings explore gay subcultures such as cruising through the lens of architecture and game theory while highlighting queer belonging, LBGTQ+ violence and police surveillance. Ting is a member of faculty at The Creative School, Toronto Metropolitan University.
GHY CHEUNG
GHY Cheung is a Hong Kong-born artist and writer. Across his practice, he attends to queer bodies in the built environment, looking in particular to histories of cruising across Hong Kong, Katarokwi-Kingston and Ottawa.
ARTWORK CREDITS
Amy Ching-Yan Lam, Make-Believe Bathroom, 2020.
Web developer: Naomi Cui
3D renderings & animations: Emerson Maxwell
Soundscape: Vic Cheong
Graffiti: Haeahn Kwon, Caley Feeney
Audio description: Aliya Pabani
Commissioned in 2021 for SFU Gallery, Burnaby, BC, curated by Jenn Jackson
Christopher Lacroix, Sometimes it’s hard to tell where it’s coming from, 2017.
Tommy Ting, Club Baths, 2018.