The exhibition presents Visual Diary (2020–2021), a photographic series created by Chinese Canadian artist Hua Jin during the first year of the pandemic. While our lives were put on hold, the artist made it her job to observe the constant changes in her natural environment. Her images, captured over 365 days, reveal how nature rarely changes its routine and has much to reveal if we simply take the time to look.
Hua Jin is a visual artist living and working in Montréal. Jin received her MFA from Concordia University in Montréal and her BFA from Emily Carr University of Art + Design in Vancouver. Photography, installation and video are her mediums of choice. She has participated in numerous solo and group exhibitions in Canada, China and the United States as well as in Mexico, Iceland and the Netherlands. In 2018, she was the first recipient of the Visual Arts Cultural Diversity Award from the Conseil des arts de Montréal. The artist's work can be found in private and public collections.