Statement:

My work explores the various ways disorientation and dislocation shape the human experience. These are two tactics that have been continually utilized by those in power as a means to control and isolate. Yet I wonder if it is through dis-location, where the ruptures and fissures emerge, that we might truly begin to locate one another.

As a transracial adoptee exploring the trans- corporeal and temporal, I engage with trans in relation to a way of being or expressing one's view; situating as in between, and existing as possibility. It may just be that we can only glimpse each other in the various states of our collective becoming. 

Bio:

Born in Yangchun City, China, Ari Zuaro is a multimedia artist whose work explores the complexities of existing as a part of the Chinese diaspora especially as an adoptee; a remnant of the One Child Policy. Based in Philadelphia they are currently pursuing an MFA at Tyler School of Art and Architecture. They received their BA in Religion and Studio Art from Carleton College in Minnesota.