Follow along Tong Zhou Lafrance @tongzhou.lafrance discuss their series “Untitled Labour” from the exhibition Transpositions (Oct 14, 2022 − Nov 26, 2022, curated by @nburisch) at @centre3_ You can also watch previous episodes on our YouTube channel. Link in bio. 🔗 Tong Zhou Lafrance cuts and reassembles old family photographs, weaving narrow strips into shimmering quasi-pixelated surfaces that emphasize how personal memories and shared cultural forms are distorted through time and representation. Lafrance alters these images as a means to examine their experience as an adoptee from China. By pulling apart memories in order to put them back together again, Lafrance’s works show how different perspectives might coexist within a single frame. More specifically, they are interested in how the story of adoption unfolds past the original event, with a life ‘constructed’ through the lens of before/after. By reworking family archives they exert their own sense of agency across significant ...