Apparitions | May 5th – 19th | Audain Gallery

Gabriel Saloman will be exhibiting a new sound piece – “Music for Prisons” – at this year’s annual MFA Spring Informal…  APPARITIONS

Art’s uncanny act, the making visible of ideation, phenomena, the intangible and the unseen is perhaps its most alluring capacity. Art acts as a haunting, whose apparition demands accountability, announces presence and revitalizes the senses. Contra to the substitutive act of most image making, Art may resist representing its subject and instead acts to bridge the worlds of the seen and the unseen.

Apparitions is an informal exhibition of works being developed by Simon Fraser University’s School of Contemporary Arts MFA program and features the work of two dozen interdisciplinary artists working in a wide range of practices. It comprises an exhibition in the Audain Gallery and an evening program of time based performances and installations held at SFU School for the Contemporary Arts. In most respects these works directly or indirectly consider the relationship between the capacity of vision and the socio-political considerations of visibility. Different classes of Apparitions are suggested here: the more literal hauntings of mythical beings; the fantastic play of light upon the eye; a multitude of marginalized and deterritorialized persons; the varieties of violence committed here and elsewhere by our political, economic and even educational institutions. In every act that these works perform, they attempt not to speak for, or about their subjects, but remind us of our own sensorial capacity to be shown and to reveal.

We hope you will join us at the opening reception at the Audain Gallery on Friday May 4th, and take a peek at what has been unfolding in our studios.

Contributing artists:

Alize Zorlutuna
Anna Marie Repstock
Calla Churchward
Casey Wei
Charlene Vickers
Chris Anderson
Daisy Thompson
Doug Blackley
Fay Nass
Gabriel Saloman
Hamidreza Jadid
Iris Lau
Juan-Manuel Sepulveda
Mariane Bourcheix-Laporte
Nancy Tam
Nikolai Gauer
Pegah Tabassinejad
Ryan Mathieson
Steve Hubert
Sydney Koke
Zack Wright

Details:

Opening Reception: Friday May 4, 7:00pm -10:00pm
Exhibition Dates: Saturday May 5 – Saturday May 19th
Time-based performances: Saturday May 5, from 6:30pm at various locations throughout SFU School for the Contemporary Arts

Audain Gallery