Korean-Canadian artist Zadie Xa’s practice focuses on familial legacies, interspecies communication and diasporic world-making. A mobile sculpture, inspired by seashell wind chimes and Korean shamanic ceremonial rattles, looms above the gallery like a ghostly figure. It sits within the installation Moonlit Confessions Across Deep Sea Echoes: Your Ancestors Are Whales, and Earth Remembers Everything (2025), composed of over 1000 chained brass bells, each strategically positioned to collectively form a large conch shell. This sculpture floats silently until activated by touch to produce sound. Audio monitors embedded in the work emit a different soundscape comprising folklore, confessions, natural elements and musical notes drawing from Salpuri, a Korean exorcism dance. The sculptures, murals and conch shell speakers were made with artist and long-term collaborator Benito Mayor Vallejo. The oracular listening sessions invite viewers to commune with the supernatural, transforming the installation into a space for shared reflection, blurring the realms of the spiritual and the everyday. The installation thus encourages connections with ancestral echoes and kinship with the more-than-human world.
—Sahar Khraibani
 

Director -  @ward helal  
Camera Operators -   @ ward helal  , Magdi Emad,   @ shefeek_sha_nk  ,   @ alialfadly1  
Editor -   @ ward_helal  
Sound Design -   @ unnikrishnan.sb  
Production Manager -  @ dimzyb  
Assistant Director -  @ unnikrishnan.sb