When the Sun is Above the Horizon: Stories from Asian Diaspora

Exhibition run: 09–20 January 2024 at Trinity Square Video (#121, 401 Richmond Street West, Toronto)
Opening Reception: 11 January 2024, 18:00 to 20:00 EST   

When the Sun is Above the Horizon: Stories from Asian Diaspora is a multimodal exhibition that engages in themes of Asian diasporic representation. Unfolding in three chapters, the exhibit moves through the sonic, virtual, and kinetic registers of Asian diasporic subjectivity. The sun holds conflicting meanings across Asian diasporas. As symbolic of life, spirituality, and resistance against injustice, it is also associated with imperial aggression and violence. As a framing device that threads the exhibition together, the sun resists its romanticized associations and instead plots out the messy, celebratory, mundane, and painful textures of Asian diasporic life.

This exhibition features Mississauga artist Gladys Lou and her work, The Semiotics of Water, which was funded by a MAC MicroGrant!

Dias:stories is led by Immony Mèn and Casey Mecija with support from OCAD University, York University, Trinity Square Video, the York Centre for Asian Research, and the Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council.

For more information: dias.stories@gmail.com