一百鬼 / 100 Ghosts
Group Exhibition >Visiting Artist in Residence > Open Studio > Toronto, ON > October 16, 2020 – November 14, 2020.
Solo Exhibition > The New Gallery > Calgary, AL > April 10 - May 18, 2021
一百鬼 / 100 Ghosts is a reimagining of the printing process as a ritual for invocation. The work uses joss paper (also known as spirit money), muslin, and images of Wong, her grandma, and the female icons represented as 100 Ghosts in Chinese eschatology. The project takes up the rigorous process of screen printing as a ritual of invocation. Instead of burning joss paper, the gold and orange sheets become the surface for conjuring. Purposely creating mistakes in the process, the ritual of screen printing becomes a search for female spiritual kin, who appear seemingly different, seemingly similar, in the errata of misprints. This process becomes a way for the artist to search for lost family and forgotten female ancestors whose memory is obscured by the trauma of migration.
一百鬼 / 100 Ghosts was printed at Open Studio in collaboration with Meggan Winsley under the auspices of the Visiting Artist Residency Program, 2019-20.
Writing:
Steph Wong Ken. "beyond the door". Exhibition poem commissioned by The New Gallery, 2021.