At one of the few produce stores left in Little Saigon (1100 block Kingsway) I saw a joss paper collection in a format I hadn't seen before, yet one that looked familiar. Ah, that was it -- an element from Liz Magor's Being This (2012).
Here's a portion of a Montreal Gazette review from the 2016 exhibition Magor had at Montreal's MAC:
"The wall-mounted installation Being This (2012) consists of 24 boxes (0f a total of 78 she made in the series) displaying found garments 'that have been meticulously snipped, stitched, and embellished.' Of the clothing she searches out, Magor said: 'I look for objects trying too hard.' The people who bought the garments initially wanted to project a certain image to the world, she suggested. 'We use the material world as props or mask — to augment or disguise ourselves,' she said."
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