BECOMING —
by guest artists Moby Ngan

July 22-25, 2026
Opening Reception: Thursday, July 23, 6-8pm

Imagine a medieval farmer entering a church after a week of hard labor. Anxious about the coming harvest, he lifts his eyes to the murals above him and listens to the stories of Genesis. Through these images, he comes to understand the world and his place within it. They offer not only an explanation of existence, but also comfort and meaning.

Throughout history, people have understood the world through the knowledge of their time. For centuries, religion shaped our imagination of nature, life, and the universe. Today, science reveals a profoundly different picture.

To me, the world revealed by science feels like the unfolding of a new creation myth. In this worldview, nothing is fixed. The universe, life, and all things exist in a continual process of emergence, evolution, variation, and transformation.

This way of seeing the world has profoundly shaped my artistic practice. My work explores what kinds of images might emerge from this worldview. If science has transformed the way we understand the world, how might it also transform the way we imagine it?

My practice spans drawing, painting, and mixed media, with process at its core. Images are not completed in a single moment—they evolve over time. Every transfer preserves traces of what came before while opening the possibility for something new.

This approach is most fully realized in my ongoing series Evolving Flow. Each work grows from the previous one through a continuous process of transfer and transformation. There is no definitive final image; every work becomes the beginning of the next. Rather than becoming, the work enacts representing it.

Although my series take different forms, they all arise from the same understanding of the world—one that is continually becoming.

Through these works, I invite viewers to consider how a changing understanding of the world might give rise to new ways of seeing—and new ways of imagining.

ARTISTS BIO

Moby Ngan is a Toronto-based self-taught artist who grew up in Hong Kong. His practice explores how contemporary science reshapes the way we understand and imagine the world. Working across drawing, painting, and mixed media, he develops images through repetition, transfer, accumulation, and transformation.

His work investigates emergence, transformation, and the continual becoming of images through generative processes that embrace unpredictability and change. He lives and works in Toronto.