Memory Lane
2024
Images courtesy of the artists
If a tree falls in a forest ~
If a tree falls in a forest ~
2024
Featuring works by Peishan Huang and Maria Simmons, If a Tree Falls in a Forest brings together a collection of lens-based multimedia works that highlight two distinct, yet often interwoven imaginaries of nature. Huang’s work creates momentary fractures within a hyper-urbanized mediation of nature, while Simmons engenders a move towards more-than-human agents as carriers of knowledge.
From artificial landscapes to folklore about overturned trees as portals, from deep forests to forgotten buildings, the artworks in this exhibition evoke the duality of human desires to both step into and aside from nature at a threshold in which the imaginaries collide.
2023
The Untethered Ashes
This project investigates the residues of two sites on Vancouver Island where the anatomical entourage of early Chinese sojourners and migrants become obscured borders that set their bodies buoyant: the stateless remains of early Chinese migrants in the Chinese Cemetery and anonymous Chinese poems engraved onto the walls of an old immigration hospital.
2023
Finding
Xionggen Wu
This project envelopes a speculative biography of Xionggen Wu, a Chinese Korean born in Manchuria who was forcefully drafted into the Kwantung Army of the Japanese Military during Japan’s occupation of the State of Manchuria in Northeast China, later becoming the Empire of Manchuria, a puppet state and constitutional monarchy of Japanese Empire after the Mukden Incident in 1931. After the defeat of Japan in WWII, Wu was taken captive as a prisoner in the Siberian war camp by the Soviets. When he was later returned to China in 1949, Wu was accused as a national traitor and Soviet spy with no conspicuous evidence.
2023
Neverland and the End of the World
Neverland and the End of the World use nuclear-related films and images as central archaeological mediums for its curatorial praxis.
Ongoing Research
Unstranded Archive
Unstranded Archive
Unstranded Archive imagines an interminable archive whose inclusive history and decolonial praxes are reached through communal engagements and mutual pedagogy rather than institutional mediations. In this sense, we imagine a de-memorialized archive of the present that is always incomplete and always in progress.