A black shed is gradually filled with lanterns made by the artists throughout the exhibition. Appearing as luminous versions of everyday objects, these lanterns represent belongings found in the artists’ childhood home on Calgary’s Edelweiss Road, in which their parents still reside.
Leonard Suryajaya uses his work to test the boundaries of intimacy, community and family. He uses photography, video, performance and installation to show how the everyday is layered with histories, meanings and potential.
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Li draws from her personal experiences as an artist within the Chinese diaspora as a foundational element of these works. These surrealist objects also offer a challenge to our relationship with the familiar material world and the cultural narratives and expectations embedded within it.
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Angeline Simon’s artistic practice considers her family’s diasporic experience, and the capacity of food and other everyday items to serve as conduits to her ancestral past. Continues until 4 February 2024.
The Museum of Fear and Wonder is a collaborative project by Brendan and Jude Griebel. This exhibition presents a selection from the Griebels’ collection of historical craftworks. The exhibition continues until 17 December 2023.
The exhibition brings together seven artists: Larry Achiampong & David Blandy, Diane Borsato, Stephanie Dinkins, Bridget Moser, Sondra Perry, and Miya Turnbull. The exhibition continues until 17 December, 2023.
The exhibition Discovering Choices features works created by students attending Discovering Choices alternative high schools. Works were created over a year of workshops led by local artists & designed to connect youth to contemporary art through making, experiential activities & dialogue.
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In bab el-soosa | باب السوسة artist asmaa al-issa pursues a method of mapping borrowed memories and stories she has acquired from a land known and claimed, but one she will never inherit.
Through elements of theatre, music, and visual art, Ragnar Kjartansson creates performances in which he explores the intertwining of pathos, humour, and collective emotion by testing the limits of repetition and the endurance of both performers and audience.
Margaux Williamson is a painter who also writes and makes videos. Her community includes writers, artists, and musicians with whom she has collaborated. Within this multifaceted practice, Williamson’s painting has evolved through long rhythms; her bodies of work are produced over years.