A homecoming for Alex Cu Unjieng

For her first solo exhibition in her hometown, Vancouver-based printmaker Alex Cu Unjieng calls attention to the multiple ways that the female genitalia is interpreted in polite society. For this, the title Jouissance makes a fitting entry point (no pun intended) to expand the conversation, transcending the abjection so commonly and conventionally linked it.

Surrounding her audience with these images, Cu Unjieng gives both a name and face to that which has been hidden, condemned, and policed, but in its own way, celebrated.