oil on canvas This painting is part of my ongoing series on nightlife, Night is Purer Than Day, which is rooted in the concern for existing between nowhere and everywhere. Drawing from my diasporic experience as a 1.5-generation immigrant, the series settles on nightlife as a way through which to readdress feelings of uncertainty that have informed my identity since my early teenage years. Capturing universally recognizable experiences of human exploration, the scenes rely on the night as a space of fluctuation between known and unknown, seen and unseen.

Ketty Haolin Zhang

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Ketty Haolin Zhang 🇨🇳🇨🇦 is an emerging interdisciplinary artist. Informed by her diasporic experience as a 1.5-generation immigrant, her art practice navigates her relationship with placelessness, liminal space and (non)belonging in a hyper-globalized world. She is interested in creating works that embody both closeness and distance - the simultaneous desire to belong and to resist being defined.