Moonlit Confessions Across Deep Sea Echoes: Your Ancestors Are Whales, and Earth Remembers Everything
Zadie Xa with Benito Mayor Vallejo
Upcoming Exhibition
Oct 24 2026 – Mar 21 2027
Zadie Xa and Benito Mayor Vallejo, detail of Moonlit Confessions Across Deep Sea Echoes: Your Ancestors Are Whales, and Earth Remembers Everything, 2025. Courtesy the artists and Thaddaeus Ropac. Photo: Eva Herzog.
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In October 2026, The Power Plant Contemporary Art Gallery will present the first major solo exhibition in Ontario of Vancouver-born, UK-based artist Zadie Xa, made in collaboration with long-term collaborator, artist Benito Mayor Vallejo.
An immersive installation that responds to the specific context of The Power Plant Contemporary Art Gallery, the exhibition will combine new and existing works, including paintings by Xa, murals, sound, and a mobile sculpture made of over 600 brass bells, suspended from the gallery’s ceiling in the shape of a conch shell, co-created by Xa together with Mayor Vallejo. Visitors will experience a vibrant, multi-sensory environment that connects Xa’s ongoing exploration of storytelling, Korean mythology, folklore, diasporic identity, and marine ecology to the shores of Lake Ontario.
Moonlit Confessions Across Deep Sea Echoes: Your Ancestors Are Whales, and Earth Remembers Everything is organized and developed in partnership with Esker Foundation, Calgary, where it is on view from May 23 to August 23, 2026, and PHI, Montréal, where it will be on view from April 29 to September 12, 2027.
We acknowledge the Canada Council for the Arts for its support of the tour of this exhibition.
About the Artist
Zadie Xa with Benito Mayor Vallejo
Zadie Xa has developed an expansive practice that addresses the nature of diasporic identities, global histories, familial legacies, and interspecies communication. Artist Benito Mayor Vallejo has worked in close collaboration with Xa exploring painting, installation, performance, and sculpture.
