Fran cisco Berlanga (b. 1997) reflects on his relationship with his Mexican iden tity as a second-generation immigrant through the lens of Craft. He attempt s to understand how one can inhabit a culture while being partially absent from it. He engages in discourse with his own identity through the creation of traditional Mexican manualidades or crafts. His practice engag es with concepts of inaccessibility attempting to bridge the gaps between h is personal and cultural identities by forcing connections between them and trying to understand the limitations that these identities impose upon eac h other.
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Francisco Berlanga\, Buscan
do Domingo: Spectre 2\, 2023\, textile\, crepe paper\, wire\, bricks and ce
ment\, dimensions variable. Courtesy of the artist. Photo: Michael Love[/ca
ption]
Alex Gibson (b. 1994) is a queer Barbadian artis t who filters digital and material processes to generate and archive memory through image\, video and installation. As an immigrant genderfluid artist \, their work focuses on queer identity\, space and temporality. Gibson’s w ork has been exhibited at Fondazione Antonio Ratti\, Como\, Italy\; Capture Photography Festival\, Vancouver\; Wil Aballe Art Projects\, Vancouver\; T omato Mouse\, New York\; and Artists Alliance\, Bridgetown\, Barbados.
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Alex Gibson\, Corner of the courtyard\, peeling\
, 2024\, inkjet prints\, image transfer on translucent paper\, resin and ce
ramic cherub\, dimension variable. Courtesy of the artist[/caption]Tiffany Law
Tiffany Law (b. 1 994) is a Hong Kong artist who expands the materiality of drawing and print making phenomenologically. She comprehends the experience of spatial beings ’ embodied movements by creating traces and surfaces. Her recent works inco rporate rocks found in the Lower Mainland\, making rock-pigmented prints th at invoke the incarnate temporality\, memory and loss entangled with land a nd landscapes.
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Tiffany Law\, sentimentary forma
tions (detail)\, 2024\, graphite on gypsum board\, 243.8 x 121.9 cm. Courte
sy of the artist[/caption]
Jesse Ro ss
Jesse Ross (b. 1991) lives and works in Vancouver. He is of predominantly settler heritage (English and Scottish) and also holds ances try as a member of the Stó:lō (Skwah) Nation. His practice deals with figur ation\, embodied knowledge\, surface and indeterminacy as a means of transf ormation. Jesse Ross is a recipient of a SSHRC Graduate scholarship.
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Jesse Ross\, Grand finale followed by silence and fa
lling rain\, 2023\, oil and acrylic on canvas\, 182.9 x 137.2 cm. Courtesy
of the artist. Photo: Michael Love[/caption]
Morgan Sears-Williams
Morgan Sears-Williams (b. 1991 ) is an interdisciplinary artist and cultivator based in Toronto and Vancou ver. She has exhibited her works across Turtle Island and internationally. Morgan Sears-Williams was the recipient of the Roloff Beny Award in 2022\, the Pandora Y. H. Ho Memorial Award and the Artscape Youngplace Career Laun cher in 2017. She received a Graduate scholarship from SSHRC in 2023\, and has received grants from the Ontario Arts Council including the Chalmers Pr ofessional Development and the Career Catalyst in 2021.
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Morgan Sears-Williams\, Buried film (still)\, 2023\, 16 m
m film. Courtesy of the artist[/caption]