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Ephemeral Echoes brings together eight artists whose practices trace memory, identity, and place through painting, photography, and mixed media. Engaging with the fleeting nature of time and the echoes it leaves behind, their works explore personal geographies, cultural inheritances, and transient encounters with the natural and built environment.
Geoffrey Feng’s luminous oil painting of Rice Lake pays homage to Vancouver’s tranquil landscapes, while Lam Wong’s Northshore Homeland Survey I captures the haunting atmosphere of foggy bridges and ancient trees on Squamish Territory. Roy Hoh and Wenli Yang’s rooftop photographs of Richmond Centre document a mall on the brink of transformation. Yiwen Xu’s Clearing Fog evokes poetic ambiguity through brush and ink, rooted in Daoist sensibilities.
June Yun’s Spring Dance merges movement and abstraction in a dreamlike space where memory, body, and ink dissolve into one another. Xiangmei Su’s “thread painting” intertwines childhood memories of textile weaving with reflections on transpacific migration. Architect Roger Xiao presents intricate ink renderings of Jiangnan water towns and classical gardens. Together, these artists offer distinct meditations on the ephemeral, where the past reverberates within the present.
This exhibition is initiated by the Vancouver Xingfu Family WeChat Group and Lanlan Art House as part of their public education series Western Modern and Contemporary Art Talks. Launched in May 2022 and curated by Dr. Roger Xiao, artist Geoffrey Feng, and Feng’s wife Macy Li, the series aims to make Western modern and contemporary art more accessible while showcasing the creative practices of local Chinese artists. Ephemeral Echoes features eight past speakers from the initiative and marks the series’ third anniversary, following more than twenty engaging talks presented in galleries across Greater Vancouver.
The City Hall Galleria is located on the ground floor of Richmond City Hall, 6911 No.3 Road, Richmond
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