Lina Wu
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A Sheathed Abyss
May 1 - July 6, 2025, Justina M. Barnicke Gallery (Art Museum at the University of Toronto)
These works are part of the MVS Studio Art graduating show.
Vinyl text: A Sheathed Abyss uses practices of world-building and feminist myth-making to produce avatars animated by an internal force. This hidden abyss unravels them from the inside out, manifesting as a self-destructive sexuality that destabilizes everything it touches. The avatars are constantly collapsing, melting, and dissolving, often putting themselves in dangerous and masochistic positions, torn apart by an alien desire. The abyss paradoxically consumes and constitutes their being.
Images courtesy of Toni Hafkenscheid and the Art Museum at the University of Toronto.
Hood
June 18 - June 22, 2022, Gales Gallery (York University)
These works were part of You're Always Coming When I'm Going, a group exhibition for the Silverfish workshop program (Issue 002: Transition).
Artist Statement: Hood is an exploration of shifting interiorities via mechanical pencil on heavy vellum. The competing visual languages of biological diagrams, print ephemera tracings, and other collaged pieces are folded together in a knight's helmet. This reflective suit of armour serves as a casing for ecosystems of thought teeming beneath the surface. Scraps of text are sourced from Perfume Genius and Fiona Apple song lyrics, original writing, found poetry, as well as portions of Irum's text, on the swallow, and her belly. How many rocks harbour secret ecologies underneath? What delineates inside and outside? What separates you and I?
Images courtesy of Philip Ocampo.
In Amber
May 27 - July 3, 2022, Xpace Cultural Centre
These works were shown alongside Kyle Mowat's sculptures in a collaborative exhibition.
Artist Statement: Dreams and ghosts are held in stasis under a thin veil of amber. Kyle Mowat and Lina Wu employ these dense and materially-oriented processes to populate a world with artifacts re-animated by their own confused histories. Each small detail reveals an underlying strangeness, like facets of a dull gem. Objects become alien, plucked from their original function, material, and location, to serve as vessels exuding new spirits. Drawings and sculptures are corporeal chronicles of the overlapping and peeling away of memory. Creatures and other figurations emerge from semi-fictive tableaux, inviting us to engage with their material intimacy.
Images courtesy of Alison Postma.
Slow Burn
2021, OCAD U (digital)
These works were part of GradEx #106, and constituted the thesis show for my Bachelor's degree in Illustration.
Artist Statement:Slow Burn upturns the notion of love as safe haven by illuminating the volatility and destructive power of intimacy in unsettling mythological tableaux.
