16"x20" / 40cm x 50cm Signed, limited edition of 30 100% acid-free archival cotton rag fine art paper Locally printed in Vancouver, Canada Produced from original painting by Ketty Haolin Zhang

Glory (2025) is part of an ongoing painting series that settles on nightlife as a way to redress feelings of uncertainty that have informed Zhang’s identity since her early teen years. Drawing from her experiences as a 1.5-generation immigrant, the paintings capture universally recognizable experiences of human exploration, relying on the night as a space of fluctuation between known and unknown, seen and unseen, everywhere and nowhere.

Recognizing the disorientation of living in a state of constant uprooting and finding comfort in the unplaceable, Zhang explains, “Just as leaving is often a privilege compared to those left behind, non-belonging becomes a conscious choice that acknowledges the fluidity of one’s relationship with the world.” Depicting night-time scenes of public and private spaces in Vancouver and beyond, these paintings are a reflection on her own diasporic experience of wanting to belong to a specific place or group while resisting assimilatory patterns.

Referring to a children’s game of hide and seek, D. W. Wincott similarly reflects in a 1963 essay: “It is joy to be hidden but disaster not to be found.” For Zhang, this desire and comfort in non-belonging is equally an act of sovereignty as it is a consequence of hyper-globalization. She seeks to translate her own plurality of being known while finding solace in aspects of ourselves that are fundamentally unassimilable.

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