Join us for the Artist Talk of Just Short of Everything by Lan “Florence” Yee (余承佳). Learn about the process behind the exhibition, the intention, and more.

Friday, April 4, 2025 from 5-6 pm followed by a Reception from 6-9pm.

All are welcome. Refreshments provided.

Lan “Florence” Yee (余承佳) is a visual artist and cultural worker based in Tkaronto/Toronto and Tiohtià:ke/Mooniyang/Montreal. They collect text in underappreciated places and ferment it until it is too suspicious to ignore.

In Yee’s words, “My text-based artwork borrows the anonymous pen of templates, signage, and forms, while displacing their functions through skeptical experiences. The often ironic and humorous tones in the language recognize the limits of their own structure, and sustain a necessary uncertainty. The intimacy of this doubt gives me the space to interrogate the echoes that make up queer diasporic memory. Rather than looking at the height of grand moments, I prefer to investigate their systemic origins, and what continues to leak in the aftermath.

My practice uses the double-edged sword of visibility and recognition to explore how we may queer desirability. It attempts to step around easy signifiers of legibility with sparse retellings, obscured patterns, and frequent interruptions. Away from the flattening effect of nostalgia, I seek to deromanticize linear narratives of intergenerational knowledge by showcasing awkwardness, repetition and dead ends.”

Accessibility:

• Gallery entrance and bathroom are wheelchair accessible

• Earplugs available on site

• All cleaning products used at Artspace are scent free, with scent free policy in place for all volunteers and staff.

COVID-19

• Masks are welcome and appreciated, except while eating or drinking.

• Maker Space and Gallery equipped with Hepa filters

• Hand sanitizer provided