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Rewilding (Autumn & Spring) considers the disappearance of the once-ubiquitous Vancouver Special within our changing urban landscape. Proliferating in the 1970s, the Vancouver Special was a quick and relatively affordable housing style that developed throughout the Lower Mainland and became associated with immigrant and working-class families. Because of their proliferation, homogeneous design, and use by marginalized residents, this architectural style …
Secret Ingredients began as a call by the artist for the public to submit messages they found difficult to express directly to someone in their life, but felt ready to share. These messages were transformed into decorated cakes and delivered to the intended recipients as an edible form of communication. To date, over seventy-five messages have been submitted and fifteen …
No Place utilizes hand-cut collage, assemblage, and re-photography to forge layered connections between architecture, history, and ideology. The resulting composition serves as a speculative reconstruction that reimagines both physical and ideological spaces.
Brutalist architecture once symbolized a progressive egalitarian society. Adopted widely by European Communist states, its raw, uncompromising aesthetic embodied a collective utopian vision. Over time, however, many of …
Tides Within brings together Richmond-based artists Fanny BokYin Tang and Debra Zhou, whose practices share a deep desire to harmonize inner freedom with the rhythms of the natural world. Tang’s surreal seascapes reflect on environmental fragility and Buddhist teachings, blending playful marine life with symbolic coral forms. Zhou’s abstract watercolour landscapes are rooted in her experience of pregnancy and early …
Guided by their interest in place, belonging, and home, Cat Hart’s exhibition Material Remains explores the layered histories of Mitchell Island and Steveston through experimental film photography. Using double exposures, Hart brings together images of plant life—both native and invasive—with remnants of early industry and contemporary sites of heavy industry and waste processing, highlighting ecologies that persist amid ongoing human …
