How Is Where You Are
Mercer Union
18 October 2025—17 January 2026Curated by Theresa Wang
Link to Mercer Union resources, including brochure with text by Fan Wu
Photos by LF Documentation and Vuk Dragojevic.
How Is Where You Are was presented as part of Artist First, a Mercer Union commissioning platform.
Many thanks to Partners in Art and the Canada Council for the Arts for their invaluable support.
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Grass Ceiling (2025)
Housepaint on drywall.
Original design painted by Martta Kajander to decorate her bedroom ceiling.
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Returnings (2025)
Boat seat, Finnair air sickness bag, Samsung Galaxy phone, charger, steel hardware.
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Humans Make Money (2025)
LED lightbox.
The Other Way Around (2025)
Reglazed porcelain squat toilet.
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Humans Make Money (2025)
LED lightbox.
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Humans Make Money (2025)
LED lightbox.
The Other Way Around (2025)
Reglazed porcelain squat toilet.
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Humans Make Money (2025)
LED lightbox.
The Other Way Around (2025)
Reglazed porcelain squat toilet.
Night of the Light of Day (2025)
Steel, porcelain, coffee tin, plastic bucket, soup tin, mulberry paper, epoxy clay, salvaged lamp fixture hardware, used compass, electrical lamp cable, brass, steel wires, thread.
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Night of the Light of Day (2025)
(Detail)
Steel, porcelain, salvaged lamp fixture hardware.
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Night of the Light of Day (2025)
Steel, porcelain, coffee tin, plastic bucket, soup tin, mulberry paper, epoxy clay, salvaged lamp fixture hardware,
used compass, electrical lamp cable, brass, steel wires, thread.
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Night of the Light of Day (2025)
(detail)
Steel, coffee tin, salvaged lamp fixture hardware, used compass.
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Night of the Light of Day (2025)
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Soup tin, mulberry paper, epoxy clay, porcelain, salvaged lamp fixture hardware, electrical lamp cable, brass and steel wires, thread.
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Night of the Light of Day (2025)
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Plastic bucket, lamp hardware.
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(T - B)
Humans Make Money (2025)
LED lightbox.
Humans Make Money (2025)
LED lightbox.
The Other Way Around (2025)
Reglazed porcelain squat toilet.
Humans Make Money (2025)
LED lightbox.
The Other Way Around (2025)
Reglazed porcelain squat toilet.
Night of the Light of Day (2025)
(Detail)
Steel, porcelain, salvaged lamp fixture hardware.
Night of the Light of Day (2025)
Steel, porcelain, coffee tin, plastic bucket, soup tin, mulberry paper, epoxy clay, salvaged lamp fixture hardware,
used compass, electrical lamp cable, brass, steel wires, thread.
Night of the Light of Day (2025)
(detail)
Steel, coffee tin, salvaged lamp fixture hardware, used compass.
Night of the Light of Day (2025)
(detail)
Soup tin, mulberry paper, epoxy clay, porcelain, salvaged lamp fixture hardware, electrical lamp cable, brass and steel wires, thread.
Sells the Time (2025)
Video monitor, beaded curtain.
Tells the Time (2025)
Reglazed porcelain toilet, epoxy clay, resin, Suunto compass, LED light, porcelain, incense, salvaged tiles.
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Sells the Time (2025)
Video monitor, beaded curtain. One of 4-channel video, TRT: 14 minutes.
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Sells the Time (2025)
(details)
Video monitor, beaded curtain. One of 4-channel video, TRT: 14 minutes.
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Tells the Time (2025)
Reglazed porcelain toilet, epoxy clay, resin, Suunto compass, LED light, porcelain, incense, salvaged tiles.
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Tells the Time (2025)
(details)
Reglazed porcelain toilet, epoxy clay, resin, Suunto compass, LED light, porcelain, incense, salvaged tiles.
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In’s Address (2025)
Gaming monitor, reflective dome, cardboard box, two indoor doorknobs, paracord, electrical wiring.
One of 4-channel video, TRT: 14 minutes.
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In’s Address (2025)
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Chuseok Chair (2025)
Second-hand Artek Stool 60, natural lacquer.
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Night of the Light of Day (Aalto) (2025)
Second-hand Artek Stool 60, glass, steel chain, electrical wiring.
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Measures Up (2025)
Video monitor, faux-finish brick motif, vapor barrier, glazed ceramic and resin.
Features the percussive anchor for 4 channel video work TRT 14mins.
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Unfitting Keys (2025)
Miscut keys wedged into gouged drywall.
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Measures Up (2025)
(detail)
glazed ceramic and resin.
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Memory Places (2016)
Ceramic key hook.
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Measures Up (2025)
(detail)
Video monitor, faux-finish brick motif.
Features the percussive anchor for 4 channel video work, TRT 14mins.
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From Here You Measure Every Elsewhere (2025)
Refrigerator doors, repurposed tv mount brackets, hardware, Royal Museums Greenwich filming invoice, natural lacquer on adhesive vinyl.
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Halting to Hold (2025)
Custom milled wool rug.
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(L to R)
Long Trick (2025)
Telescoping flagpole, carabiners, customized illusion box, Karelian birch.
Bed with Blur (2025)
Samsung Galaxy tablet, repurposed printer’s scanner bed, custom wood ladder, projection screen fabric, battery, hardware.
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Bed with Blur (2025)
(detail)
Samsung Galaxy tablet, repurposed printer’s scanner bed, custom wood ladder, projection screen fabric, battery, hardware.
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Long Trick (2025)
Telescoping flagpole, carabiners, customized illusion box, Karelian birch.
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Long Trick (2025)
(details)
Telescoping flagpole, carabiners, customized illusion box, Karelian birch.
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Long Trick (2025)
Telescoping flagpole, carabiners, customized illusion box, Karelian birch.
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Long Trick (2025) 
Sells the Time (2025)
(details)
Video monitor, beaded curtain. One of 4-channel video, TRT: 14 minutes.
Tells the Time (2025)
(details)
Reglazed porcelain toilet, epoxy clay, resin, Suunto compass, LED light, porcelain, incense, salvaged tiles.
In’s Address (2025)
(details)
Measures Up (2025)
(detail)
glazed ceramic and resin.
Measures Up (2025)
(detail)
Video monitor, faux-finish brick motif.
Features the percussive anchor for 4 channel video work, TRT 14mins.
Bed with Blur (2025)
(detail)
Samsung Galaxy tablet, repurposed printer’s scanner bed, custom wood ladder, projection screen fabric, battery, hardware.
Long Trick (2025)
Telescoping flagpole, carabiners, customized illusion box, Karelian birch.
Long Trick (2025)
(details)
Telescoping flagpole, carabiners, customized illusion box, Karelian birch.
Long Trick (2025)
Telescoping flagpole, carabiners, customized illusion box, Karelian birch.
(detail)