Prolonged: Translating a Distance examines the fluidity of memory through abstraction, exploring and offering an alternate way to consider stories of displacement. Yuhan Zheng's images transferred onto bamboo, blur and partially tear away, disrupting the linearity of memory to reveal its fragmentary, intimate and abstract qualities. Zheng’s quiet visuals resist narrating memory, opting to explore its disjointedness through the coexistence of absence and presence and how their connection is preserved and reimagined across time and space.
Drawing from his immigrant experience, Ernesto Cabral de Luna explores themes of identity and representation through the fleeting nature of memory that constructs a mobile, personal and ephemeral archive fundamental to diasporic identities. Cabral de Luna uses experimental printing techniques on unconventional and often manipulated surfaces, rendering the image into a sculptural object—commenting on immigration and self-reinvention—challenging the notion of ownership over memories that are not your own.
Ernesto Cabral de Luna (b. 1996, Cholula, Mexico) is a lens-based artist working in Toronto. His work explores the fragmentary nature of memory—individual and collective—by manipulating alternative histories and printing onto found scrap materials through digital and analog experimental processes. Interested in narratives of migration, his practice examines the interplay between memory, dislocation, and displacement, particularly in the context of exile. Ernesto received his Honors BFA in Photography from OCAD University in 2024. He has exhibited work in various galleries and artist run centres such as Patel Brown, Abbozzo Gallery and Xpace, and will soon exhibit at The Artist Project in May 2025.
Yuhan Zheng is a Beijing-born, lens-based artist living in Toronto. Her work is rooted in everyday experience, exploring how images mediate memory, presence, and distance. Her early performative self-portraits examine the tension between indexicality and representation in photography. She has since shifted toward material processes like image transfer, embracing a quieter engagement with absence and fragmentation. Yuhan received her BFA in Photography from OCAD University in 2023. Her work has been exhibited in a group show at Gallery 44 and featured on the Shaw Street public art billboard, co-supported by CDCC and CEAD.
