About this event
Visual ArtFree admission to The Power Plant’s gallery and public programmes.
What We Carry Forward by Toronto-based artist Sami Tsang is the inaugural work in The Power Plant’s Smokestack Commission Program. Tsang is a Chinese-Canadian artist working primarily as a ceramicist. Her work stems from her own narratives as well as the stories she gathers around domestic encounters. Working primarily with ceramics, painting, and metal, Tsang channels these stories into her artmaking to reveal shared, raw, emotional experiences.
Drawing from her studio practice, which brings together themes of migration, inheritance, and memory through figurative sculpture and mixed media, Tsang creates a site-specific, large-scale ink mural. Inspired by childhood shadow puppetry and populated by tiny porcelain figurines of girls, the work explores the space between vulnerability and protection, play and strength, memory and becoming. Through the imagined world of fantasy, care, and collective movement, Tsang considers the quieter inheritances women carry through their lives and pass between generations. In this symbolic realm, the materials become part of the story itself: the clay holds the body; the silver protects the spirit.