Owner of a Lonely Heart
Haig Aivazian, Stephanie Comilang, Alia Farid, Hope Pearl Strickland, and Yuyan Wang
Upcoming Exhibition
Oct 24 2026 – Mar 21 2027
Yuyan Wang, still from Green Grey Black Brown, 2024. Courtesy the artist.
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The Power Plant and The Vega Foundation present Owner of a Lonely Heart, a program of recent moving image works by contemporary artists Haig Aivazian, Stephanie Comilang, Alia Farid, Hope Pearl Strickland, and Yuyan Wang. On view in The Power Plant’s North Gallery, the 80-minute program cycles on a loop, moving from documentary, narrative, and archival approaches to filmmaking toward increasingly associative, musical, and rhythmic forms.
The artists’ works trace the movement of raw materials drawn from the earth, transformed into products, and transported by waterways–be they petroleum, pearls, or plastic plants. Each work portrays a dense web of relations linking labour, ecosystems, and global economies. By tracing the transformation of raw matter, the works reveal how people are bound by circumscribed geographies and unevenly shaped by global networks of extraction and circulation. Together, the artists consider how geopolitical histories shape social and collective identity, and how individuals locate themselves within an overwhelming present. When the prosperity and stability experienced in one place is enabled by the exploitation and scarcity imposed elsewhere, what responsibility does vision bring?
About the Artists
Alia Farid
Alia Farid lives and works in Kuwait and Puerto Rico. Through mostly sculpture and film, her work explores the ways in which modernity reconfigures collectivity and ritual.
Haig Aivazian
Haig Aivazian grapples with the metamorphic nature of three technologies: artificial light, computation, and law.
Hope Pearl Strickland
Hope Pearl Strickland is an artist-filmmaker from Manchester, UK, working with experimental and documentary-based modes, incorporating archival, 16mm, and digital practices.
Stephanie Comilang
Stephanie Comilang is an artist living and working between Toronto and Berlin. Her documentary-based works create narratives that look at how mobility, capital, and labour are shaped on a global scale through various cultural and social factors.
