The Power Plant and The Vega Foundation are excited to present a program of recent moving image works by contemporary artists Haig Aivazian, Stephanie Comilang, Alia Farid, Hope Pearl Strickland, and Yuyan Wang. Curated to accompany the Fall 2026 season, Owner of a Lonely Heart transforms the upstairs gallery at The Power Plant into a theatre playing a continuous 80-minute program.

This program explores entanglement as a condition of contemporary life. Under the current system of global capitalism, we are enmeshed with one another. Like a seesaw, the prosperity, abundance, and stability that manifest in one place are often the direct result of the exploitation, scarcity, and violence produced in another. To think of enmeshment is to engage with how people are bound by circumscribed geography and unevenly shaped by networks of extraction and circulation.

The works in this program chart the path of raw materials drawn from the earth, circulated via waterways, and transformed into commodities–be it pearls, oil, electricity, or plastic. Each work frames a dense web of relations linking labourers and ecosystems into global economies. The artists' works variously register the material conditions through which people conceive of their history and locate themselves within the barrage of the present.

Owner of a Lonely Heart is organized and developed by The Power Plant Contemporary Art Gallery and The Vega Foundation. Curated by Julia Paoli, Director & Curator, The Vega Foundation, with Kate Whiteway, Assistant Curator, The Vega Foundation, in dialogue with the curatorial team at The Power Plant.