Jeff Chiu

The Ancestral Home

January 5 - January 22, 2017

CLOSING RECEPTION: January 21, 2017 (7-10PM)

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My late grandfather’s handwritten memoirs appeared to me as a block of inaccessible information. According to the dates, it contains an extensive recollection of his life - from growing up in rural China to his eventual emigration to Boston, Massachusetts. The act of translating the text from one language to another entails many linguistic discrepancies—many images that may be hidden from the western eye (...and perhaps images that may only appear to the western eye).

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Jeff Chiu is currently pursuing a BFA in photography from the School of Image Arts at Ryerson University. He has written that his work often serves as a guide that navigates an ongoing understanding of diaspora, memory, and deterioration.