Image: The Power Plant, Toronto
Sami Tsang’s ‘What We Carry Forward’ is a site-specific, large-scale ink mural inspired by childhood shadow puppetry and populated by tiny porcelain figurines of girls. The commissioned work was made for The Power Plant Contemporary Art Gallery, with Adelina Vlas, Artistic Director, and Sarah Edo, TD Curatorial Fellow, identified as its curators.
Through an imagined world of play, protection, and collective movement, Tsang considers the inheritances passed between generations. She considers the quieter inheritances that move between generations, including what each generation chooses to preserve, transform, or leave behind.
The commissioned work uses ink, porcelain, and silver, materials identified in the description of a 2026 detail of ‘What We Carry Forward’. Tsang is a Chinese-Canadian artist who works primarily as a ceramicist, and her sculptures stem from her own narratives as well as stories gathered around domestic encounters.
Using clay, resin, rice paper, and ballpoint pen, Tsang channels these stories into her art-making to reveal shared, raw, emotional experiences.
