Opening Reception: Saturday, March 1, 2–5pm

Artist Talk: Saturday, March 15, 1–2pm

Unfamiliar Portraits examines the complex relationship between queer identity and familial legacy through conceptual photography, wax sculptures, and textiles. Engaging with materials that speak to both domesticity and ritualistic transformation, the works explore the ambiguity of familial structures and ancestral reverence. The exhibition functions as a site of transformation, an alt-historical archive which seeks to amplify voices that have been silenced or omitted from generational storytelling.

 

Through various media, including the artist's own physical presence, the work creates space for untold narratives that didn't conform to heteronormative expectations. Uncertainty and speculation give way to fiction and assertion, as everyday materials become markers of presence and absence. This multimedia installation continues an ongoing investigation of intergenerational memory and identity through a queer Asian-Canadian lens, inviting viewers to contemplate their own relationship with inherited histories and cultural identity.