Kyle Vingoe-Cram & Gabriel Cheung
A Rift in the Valley

Kyle Vingoe-Cram and GHY Cheung are artists, writers and researchers who have been working together since 2015. Across their collaborative drawing and writing practice, they are committed to diverse queer stories that come out of the co-constitutive, sometimes contradictory interplay of personal experiences, collective memories and public narratives of histories. The duo came to ´ace in order to have dedicated time to work on A Rift in the Valley, a graphic novel they are currently developing. Kyle and GHY also maintain individual practices, respectively, as a painter and cartoonist and as a multi-media artist. Kyle’s debut graphic novel, Kettle Harbour was published by Conundrum Press in 2023 and examined the reliability of memory and the cascading effects of trauma. GHY’s recent projects attend to queer bodies in the built environment, considering, in particular, cruising as a haunting and concomitant shaping of urban space.

ARTIST STATEMENT

Kyle and GHY are currently at work on a new graphic novel, A Rift in the Valley. In this queer speculative fiction, a sinkhole opens in a small university town, mirroring the growing tension between two artist friends, Oliver Leung and Basil Jung, after the latter decides to move away with his partner. As the sinkhole swallows streets and cuts across campus towards the town’s beloved art gallery, Oliver and Basil rush to invent new ways of maintaining their friendship. Amid other residents’ panic and fascination, Oliver alone starts notice the sinkhole’s other, stranger effects.