Around the Kitchen Table: Crafting Connections

This exhibition explores the intrinsic connection between making and communication, proposing the physical act of creation as a language in its own right. Rooted in gesture rather than speech, the works consider how knowledge, memory, and care are transmitted through the hands—across generations, cultures, and stages of life. Shaped as much by lived experience as by material, each piece positions making as both an intimate and communal act, where meaning is formed through touch, repetition, and shared presence.

The foundation of this exhibition emerges from the artist’s experience of growing up mixed race, navigating multiple cultural identities and languages. Verbal communication was limited between her grandmother and herself, creating a sense of distance from her Chinese heritage. Yet within the shared ritual of cooking, they found a different way to connect.

Through the repeated gestures of folding and wrapping dough, their hands exchanged care, memory, and cultural knowledge without the need for words. This quiet, tactile language stayed resurfaced years later as she found herself back at the kitchen table, now with a young child of her own. Before speech was possible, making together became a primary form of communication—an embodied exchange rooted in presence and care.

Opening Night: February 26, 6 to 8pm
Exhibition runs February 26 to April 23, 2026

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Host or Publisher Craft Council of BC