About the Event
Hear from the artist and be the first to see this new work on view at Brochstein Pavilion.
Yifan Jiang is a Chinese Canadian artist based in New York whose project-driven practice encompasses painting, sculpture, animation, and performance. As a diasporic artist, Jiang’s work examines shared similarities and differences across cultures and belief systems. Her work invokes magical realism—a literary and artistic genre that blends reality with fantasy—to create everyday scenes interlaced with references to philosophy, history, and science. Jiang’s uncanny subject matter points to the limits of language in expressing fragments of our imagination.
Cafeteria was inspired by Jiang’s frequent visits to the Brochstein Pavilion while she audited philosophy classes at Rice University during her two-year Core Residency Program at the Glassell School of Art at the Museum of Fine Arts, Houston.
Off the Wall is a partnership between the Moody Center for the Arts and the Core Residency Program at the Glassell School of Art at the Museum of Fine Arts, Houston. The series commissions Core Residency Program alumni to create site-specific installations for this space, which will be on view for one year.
