
YI SHI | CANADA | 2025 | 10 MIN | MANDARIN + CHINESE EST
YI SHI | CANADA | 2025 | 10 MIN | MANDARIN + CHINESE EST
In the fall of 2024, I returned to my childhood home in Hangzhou, China, to celebrate my mother's retirement. In this same old apartment with its walls peeling and tiles cracked, I started noticing changes in her...
Yi Shi is a first generation queer immigrant artist, currently based in Tkaronto/Toronto Canada. Their lens-based work seeks to disrupt entrenched social structures by centering community voices while exploring the complexities of grief, care, and resistance.
Rooms of Her Own is a queer child’s letter to a mother who changes through time. Growing up in a complicated household, and later “fleeing” abroad alone, I was scared to return to a crumbling apartment and a family that's stuck in the past. There was too much anger, fear, and pain. But for a fleeting moment, in the fall of 2024, my mother surprised me with extreme vulnerability, and a late epiphany. I hope the story brings hope to others: to mothers, wives, youths, and the guardians of queer children.
Ji Wu, Yi Shi
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