Steven Dragonn, If You Are Lucky Enough To Have Lived In Paris As A Young Man, Then Wherever You Go For The Rest of Your Life, It Stays With You, For Paris Is A Moveable Feast …, 2022, inkjet print, 142 x 191 cm. Courtesy of the Artist and Canton-sardine.
Steven Dragonn, You’re a Drifter, Don’t Dock 你是浪子別拍岸, 2012–2022–2025, transparency in lightbox, foam, 57 x 36 x18 cm. Courtesy of the Artist and Canton-sardine.
Steven Dragonn, If You Are Lucky Enough To Have Lived In Paris As A Young Man, Then Wherever You Go For The Rest of Your Life, It Stays With You, For Paris Is A Moveable Feast …, 2022–24, transparency in lightbox, foam, wood, 318 x 427 x 61 cm. Courtesy of the Artist and Canton-sardine.
Steven Dragonn, Song of the Exile 客途秋恨, from the A Place Called Home series, 2025, inkjet print, 52 x 50 cm. Courtesy of the Artist and Canton-sardine.
Steven Dragonn, Vancouver may never be poetics between Montparnasse and Mongkok 溫哥華從不是介乎法國與旺角的詩意, from the A Place Called Home series, 2022, inkjet print, 170 x 142 cm. Courtesy of the Artist and Canton-sardine.
Steven Dragonn, If You Are Lucky Enough To Have Lived In Paris As A Young Man, Then Wherever You Go For The Rest of Your Life, It Stays With You, For Paris Is A Moveable Feast …, 2022, inkjet print, 142 x 191 cm. Courtesy of the Artist and Canton-sardine.
Steven Dragonn, You’re a Drifter, Don’t Dock 你是浪子別拍岸, 2012–2022–2025, transparency in lightbox, foam, 57 x 36 x18 cm. Courtesy of the Artist and Canton-sardine.
Steven Dragonn, If You Are Lucky Enough To Have Lived In Paris As A Young Man, Then Wherever You Go For The Rest of Your Life, It Stays With You, For Paris Is A Moveable Feast …, 2022–24, transparency in lightbox, foam, wood, 318 x 427 x 61 cm. Courtesy of the Artist and Canton-sardine.
Steven Dragonn, Song of the Exile 客途秋恨, from the A Place Called Home series, 2025, inkjet print, 52 x 50 cm. Courtesy of the Artist and Canton-sardine.
Steven Dragonn, Vancouver may never be poetics between Montparnasse and Mongkok 溫哥華從不是介乎法國與旺角的詩意, from the A Place Called Home series, 2022, inkjet print, 170 x 142 cm. Courtesy of the Artist and Canton-sardine.
Steven Dragonn: Vancouver may never be poetics between Montparnasse and Mongkok
Opening Reception
Saturday, April 11, 2 – 5 pm
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Steven Dragonn’s images always conceal a delicate tension beneath a surface of restraint. His camera never imposes; his narratives are devoid of spectacle yet every frame harbours quiet unease. The tones are refined, the gestures modest, but the stillness conceals turbulence. In Vancouver may never be poetics between Montparnasse and Mongkok, the artist situates himself between three cities – Guangzhou, Paris, and Vancouver – each acting as both home and site of exile. The poetic distance among them transforms into an allegory of migration and memory.
The work begins from the everyday: a CD, a corner of a home, the spine of a book. But within these details, the gaze turns upon itself – a confrontation between sight and reflection, reality and its fiction. Dragonn’s protagonists are himself, his silent family, and the quiet strangers around them, caught in a theatre of restrained emotions. His photographs are not mere records; they are the mirrored residues of a life continuously translated across languages and geographies.
Responding to the legacy of the Vancouver School’s conceptualist approach, this exhibition gathers such fragments into a field of reflection – where the poetic and the prosaic coexist, and where Vancouver becomes not a destination, but a question suspended between the contemporary West and East.
The Canada Council for the Arts has supported the creation of work in this exhibition.
Please note the gallery is located inside the Sun Wah Centre at the basement (LG) level, accessible by stairway and elevator.
