Zadie Xa with Benito Mayor Vallejo Solo exhibition at the Esker Foundation

Zadie Xa creates vivid, immersive installations that incorporate a wide range of materials and media, including painting, textiles, sculpture, light, and sound. Often these installations offer a space for shared reflection on larger spiritual practices and intergenerational storytelling. Informed by her Korean heritage and her upbringing on the West Coast, Xa’s work weaves together narratives of interspecies communication, mythology, shamanism, and folklore with diasporic identity and marine ecology.

The exhibition is a continuation of Moonlit Confessions Across Deep Sea Echoes: Your Ancestors Are Whales, and Earth Remembers Everything (2025), which was exhibited in 2025 at Sharjah Biennial 16 and won the artist a nomination for the prestigious British Turner Prize. This is the first major solo exhibition in Alberta of the Vancouver-born, London-based artist, made in collaboration with artist and long-term collaborator Benito Mayor Vallejo.

Moonlit Confessions Across Deep Sea Echoes: Your Ancestors Are Whales, and Earth Remembers Everything is organised and developed in partnership with The Power Plant, Toronto where it will be on view from 16 October 2026–21 March 2027, and at PHI, Montreal in spring 2027.