This work records words that can describe both sexual activity and domestic labour, bringing them together into a sticky and ambiguous linguistic system in which care and desire are no longer clearly separated, but seep into and contaminate one another. The gelatin bubbles hovering above resemble cleaning in progress, the unrinsed foam, traces about to disappear. Fragile, damp, and slowly dissolving, they point to the temporality of care work: repetitive, fleeting, yet deeply intimate. The piece invites viewers to reconsider how labour itself can become a form of intimacy.

Brubey (WanZhi)has participated in numerous artist residencies, including the Banff Centre for Arts and Creativity in Canada, the School of Visual Arts in New York, and the NARS Foundation in Brooklyn. Hu has been a sessional instructor at University of Waterloo and University of Toronto Scarborough. She is a co-director at Tangent Collective.   Bridging her interests in linguistics, poetry and architectural drawing, her practice seeks to delineate how cultural and personal identities are shaped. She holds an MFA from the University of Waterloo as a SSHRC scholar and a BFA from the Maryland Institute College of Art. Brubey’s work has been exhibited at Accent Sisters, Field Projects, and A Space Gallery in New York; Art Mur in Montreal; Zalucky Contemporary, Art Museum at University of Toronto, Cambridge Galleries, University of Waterloo Art Gallery, and Art Gallery of Mississauga, all in Ontario.