Turtles All The Way Down
Saturday, May 23, 2026
1:00 – 2:00pm and 3:00 – 4:00pm
Origami turtle folding led by artist Qu Chan
To register, email: [email protected]
How can one transform one’s past into something new in the present? Join artist Yihk Qu Chan as she teaches how to fold paper turtles out of old memory remnants and shares how meaning can be made through the repetition of gestures. Participants are encouraged to bring any personally significant paper materials they wish to let go of. Paper will also be provided by the artist. Participants can choose to take their turtles home or add their folded memory to the artist’s collection.
It’s been surreal to see this exhibition come to fruition, what an honour to show alongside this group of artists 🤍
Opening is this Thursday! @belkinartgallery , 6-8pm
Hope to see you there 🐢✨
Exhibition will be on from May 1-31st.
Elsewhere, Otherwise: UBC Master of Fine Arts Graduate Exhibition is curated by Melanie O’Brian and presented with support from the Department of Art History, Visual Art and Theory at the University of British Columbia and Martyn Golding. @ubcartsculture
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it’s not just the end of the semester, but my last one—I can’t believe how time has passed and everything is now different and still the same
grateful grateful to have experienced it all 🥹😭
come visit the culmination of my work at the upcoming opening at the Belkin, my turtles will be there waiting for u 🫶!!
I’ve been drawing on Byung Chul Han’s conception of rituals as symbolic techniques, capable of making oneself at home in the world. Rituals formalize a repetition of recognition; they become a returning engagement that grows familiarity—
“They transform being-in-the-world into a /being-at-home/. They turn the world into a reliable place. They are to time what a home is to space: they render time habitable.”
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“Recognition always implies that we have come to know something more authentically than we were able to do when caught up in our first encounter with it. Recognition elicits the permanent from the transient.”
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