Jenny Tchen is a Chinese Vietnamese artist based in Tkaronto/Toronto, with a BFA majoring in Drawing and Painting at OCAD University. Responding in paint and mixed media she contextualizes and re-appropriates culturally displaced symbologies imbued in her experiences as a first-generation Asian woman and artist. Jenny Tchen recollects on complicated intimacies between herself and subtextual objects grounded in familial narratives of displacement and its relationship to her archeological position in “Canada.” Seeking to process trauma, closure, and ideas of home, she engages with unstable notions of the diasporic self and migratory emplacement through the contorted, escapist imagery in her work.