Through (2023)
远处的星芒迫近眼球。按下快门，相机替我们诉说一切。无尽的波澜驱逐我们到深远未来，而我们极力转回，躲闪着目光，以暂且留在当下。或许我们只是有些不舍，指尖攀在快门上，与时光微小角力。
“…Starbursts in the distance approach our eyes. Pressing the shutter, the camera tells it all for us. The endless waves banish us to the deep future, and we try to turn back, averting our eyes in order to stay in the present for a while. Maybe we're just a little reluctant to let go, our fingertips climbing on the shutter, wrestling with the smallness of time.”
In the delicate interplay of light and shadow, a space emerges—an in-between, a moment suspended in time. Through (2023) is an exploration of that liminal space. It is a visual journey into the mysterious, the transformative, and the ephemeral. Through (2023) is a collection of photographs by Jiayi Fang and Zehua Zhang that draws from digital film and polaroids taken in Canada and China. This exhibition invites you to embrace the magic of liminal photography, a medium that captures the beauty of transitional spaces and fleeting moments.
As you explore Through (2023) let your imagination take flight. Embrace the ambiguity, the mystery, and the uncertainty that these images present. This exhibition is an invitation to reflect on the liminal spaces in your own life, the moments when you too have stood on the threshold of change, between what once was and what is yet to be.
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Jiayi Fang is a photographer and wax carving artist, as well as a Management and Finance student at the University of Toronto Scarborough. She spends most of her time in Xiamen, an island city in China. The city has left a deep impression on her and has become her main source of inspiration. Her artwork is associated with nostalgia, still life, the aesthetics of unconsciousness, and the poetry of the ordinary. The work reveals a woman’s great sensitivity to the changes of nature. In addition, the perception of the body and the flow of emotions reveals a certain kind of soft and ineffable spirituality. This rare spirituality is also skillfully displayed in her artworks.
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Zehua Zhang is a photographer and short story writer from Northeastern China, with a background in Philosophy and Psychology from his undergraduate studies at the University of Toronto (St. George). His work often wanders through dusty modern cities, attempting to recreate flashes of dreams and to show the déjà vu-inducing aspects of urban landscapes. Inspired by countless moments of encounter with liminal spaces, he stops, transcends his inner boundaries, and shares his fluid and generative surroundings with the audience.
Opened from October 23 to November 3
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Watch an exclusive interview with the artists here.
