Yutong Lin

Yutong Lin is an exophone writer, translator, and image-based artist based between Montreal, Canada, and Yunnan, China. Her work explores forgetfulness and misremembering in material and linguistic conditions. She traces stories, hearsay, and folk legends to map the cultural and geographical contours of her native Himalayas through fieldwork. Her first photobook, Zomia Garden (Canadian Centre for Architecture), reframes the history of plant hunting in Southwest China through Nakhi plant knowledge and geography. She is currently developing Afterword, an editorial and publishing project with Yidan Li that foregrounds the translator’s labor and sensibility as a spatial and architectural inquiry.