Iga Janik: Wednesday morning, Kang constructed a round, well-shaped barrier out of hundreds of bananas outside Kitchener City Hall, according to CTV. By the afternoon, he had trapped himself inside – metaphorically, if not literally. It all part of The Well, an installation by Toronto artist Zhaoyi Kang, a Chinese immigrant to Canada. Iga Janik, who works for Cambridge Idea Exchange and helped curate and produce The Well, says the literal barrier is a stand-in for the racial barriers that we continue to have in society. His Chinese has lost his accent, so he doesn't feel native in Beijing anymore when he goes back, and yet here in Canada he hasn't really been welcomed as one part of our full society, she says. In Kang case, Janik says, the biggest barrier faced is a language issue.
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