Bo Yeung | June 2021
July 6, 2021
June 28, 2021
June 6, 2021
Bo Yeung (she/her) is a multidisciplinary chinese canadian artist, whose work is primarily textiles, family belongings, performances and installations. She resides on the traditional territory of Tr’ondëk Hwëchin in Dawson City, Yukon. Yeung immigrated in 1995 from a rice farming village in Kaiping, China to Vancouver and from that moment on there has been a complex relationship in unsettling belongings, diaspora and community. She was raised in a family chinese restaurant, in Kamloops where she completed her BFA at TRU(Thompson Rivers University) both spaces ignited the reimagining of the narrative in chinese diaspora. This conversation includes her ancestors, the work is an offering to them.