Xan Shian is an interdisciplinary artist and writer, and MFA candidate in the AHVA Department at UBC, whose practice uses the presence and absence of memory to question the corporeal tensions that manifest within her body. In this work, Xan examines how the Scottish and Gaelic folklores she grew up hearing help navigate the in-between spaces of personal, cultural and material encounter by seeking what is absent or unaccounted for. She has written for and shown works at spaces including the Polygon Gallery (Vancouver), Project Pangée (Montreal), the AHVA Gallery (UBC, Vancouver), and the Ou Gallery (Duncan). Xan makes art and lives as an uninvited guest on the traditional, ancestral and unceded territories of the xʷməθkwəy̓əm (Musqueam), Skwxwú7mesh (Squamish), and Səl̓ílwətaʔ/Selilwitulh (Tsleil-Waututh) Nations.