Vancouver artist Casey Wei has won this year鈥檚 $25,000 Philip B. Lind Emerging Artist Prize.
She was among five contenders who displayed their work at The Polygon Gallery in North Vancouver in the Lind Biennial exhibition.
Wei鈥檚 video installation, titled The Zhang Clan, spans three screens as it explores her mother鈥檚 family鈥檚 migration to Melbourne, Australia from China after the Tiananmen Square massacre.
Lind jurors praise the work for 鈥渦pending the conventions of documentary filmmaking鈥� and say Wei 鈥渟uccessfully transposes her DIY esthetics and community-based art into a gallery setting.鈥�
The Lind Prize is awarded biannually to an emerging British Columbia-based artist.
The other finalists this year include Mena El Shazly, Karice Mitchell, Dion Smith-Dokkie and Parumveer Walia.
The exhibition will be on display at The Polygon Gallery until Feb. 2.
