WHEN + WHERE

Opening reception: Thurs. February 12, 5 - 7pm

Exhibition on view: Feb. 13 - Mar. 3, 2026

Gallery hours: Mon - Fri, 9am - 4:30pm

Gayle and Ed Roski Gallery, Roski Studios Building (IFT)

ABOUT THE EXHIBITION

This exhibition illustrates a series of the artist’s own stories and Tibetan folklore. Culture here is not inherited intact, but altered as it moves through land, belief, and time. The “Wish-Fulfilling Corpse” (Ruyi Bao Shi) in Tibetan old stories holds an ethical core, yet that core is never still. It shifts through migration.

Tibetan life today unfolds under layered pressures. Tourism, urban growth, global education, and religious order press upon the body. Tradition gives form and meaning, even as it restricts. The land feeds, and it holds.

The artist’s own passage across places enters the work not as confession, but as opening. Moving between cultures, the artist hover between attachment and drift. Different languages and landscapes settle into the body and guide how the work is made. Making becomes a backward glance that is a quiet ignition within constraint.

The exhibition leans away from fidelity and inheritance, and toward a freer mode of engagement. When scripture loosens into poetry, tradition is not abandoned but gently unsettled. As Su Shi writes:
“To befriend fish and shrimp, to companion with elk and deer;
to sail a small skiff, to raise a gourd cup in shared delight.
To entrust oneself, like a mayfly, to heaven and earth—
a single grain adrift in the vastness of the sea.”