Ya Wen is a Chinese-Canadian artist based in Vancouver and Calgary. Her work reflects her love for life and her constant search for discovery, expressed through various media. Ya's art practice often explores the intersection between the emptiness of life and the reality of living, and she naively believes that only the mundane can counteract the eternal.
She is filled with curiosity and respect for the ordinary things in daily life and seeks to profane their meanings by reassembling them to prompt viewers to reconsider their inherent perceptions. Through her art, Ya questions the meaning each object has been given by the past and seeks to construct a new significance for its present. Ya believes that the creative and exploratory process itself is the result and confrontation of the contradictions between the individual's subjective perceptions and objective reality.
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Group Exhibition
What did you dream about last night?
Lok Jyun
Rewinding the Tape
Solo Exhibition
Mosaic
Lok Jyun
Artist & curator
(Parádeisos)Rewinding the Tape
Solo Exhibition
Mosaic
The bows
Calgary,AB
Truck conemtpeoryCalgary,AB
Exposure festival
Calgary,AB
Ceig Gallery
Calgary,AB
Truck conemtpeoryCalgary,AB
Exposure festival
Calgary,AB
Ceig Gallery
2023
2023
2023
2022
2023
2023
2022