As a Chinese settler and immigrant woman living and creating in Aurora, artist and poet Yafang Shi contemplates her relationship with Indigenous lands she lives on, the ecological environment she lives in, her constantly evolving identity, and the social reality she needs to navigate through. Her intricate and evocative diptych, triptych, quadtych and collage paired with her poems weave a multilayered tapestry of personal lived experiences, inner emotions, and societal conditions from a decolonial, intersectional, and transnational feminist perspective. This body of work echoes her long-term and ongoing documentary project on social movements for women’s rights and social justice.

Exhibition tour with the artist June 7, 2–4PM.