Ss9 — ABSTRACT: Lan Florence Yee
ARCHIVE | Destabilising “Chinatown” Narratives with Text and Embroidery
This month on Studio Sessions, we’re looking beyond the apparent with ABSTRACT. This series profiles four visual artists exploring the limits of expression through the elemental perspectives of abstract art. Our next stop is in Toronto’s Chinatown.
WORDS BY ISABELLA ELIAS
ART BY LAN FLORENCE YEE
Toronto-based artist Lan Florence Yee’s work centres on the fusion between text and labour-intensive creation. Yee’s art presents a stumbling block to linear narratives of intergenerational knowledge. Through the intensive process of embroidering text onto fabric, Yee showcases experiences of dead ends, futility, failure and repetition. It seeks to deromanticize queer and racialized experiences. As both a visual artist and curator of the digital exhibit Chinatown Biennial, Yee explores the purpose of taking a closer examination into what we think we know.
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