wonderlust

Works by Ralph Chau, Harry Chen Xiaosong, Raffaella Chen Xing, Alexandra Chong De La Torre, Arthur Cui Yuanqiansheng, Feliciana De Sousa Chang, Coco Dong, Crystal Ge Kailin, Alanis Huang Tinglan, Victoria Haseung Jung, Joanne Kim, Hans Li, Li Muzi, Doris Xiao Ying Liu, Felix Liu, Yutong Liu, Mak Yuen Kiu, Qian Yiyan, Nikolas Radulovich, Charon Yixuan Wang, Vic Wang, Wang Zhe, Wu Yunjie, Janusha Xavier, Yang Junrou, NonHTomas (Tomas Yang Qianfan), Henry Yuan Shuaixin, Zhu Mingze, Zhu Yuhan

Opening reception: Saturday, April 13, 2 – 5 pm
10-minute moderated artist conversations will take place at 2:45 pm, 3:30 pm, and 4:15 pm

The Department of Arts, Culture and Media at the University of Toronto Scarborough is pleased to present Wonderlust, an exhibition and publication featuring works by graduating students in the Studio Art program. Wonderlust is a minor but potent détournement that captures the desire to embrace the uncertain and the unfamiliar through imagination, inquiry, and encounter. The artworks in the exhibition probe the idea of wonder in diverse ways asking: can the digital re-enchant the everyday? What does AI have to teach us about the inexplicable? How does memory, forgetting, and tradition shape the future of families, diasporas, and other collectivities? For the artists in Wonderlust, curiosity forges the path through real and fantastical topographies of mortality, displacement, belonging, crisis, and social transformation.

Faculty mentors: Hadley Howes and Will Kwan