Mohsen Khalili: Remote Gardening with DysfunctionED Tools
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The Reach Gallery Museum Abbotsford 32388 Veterans Way, Abbotsford, British Columbia V2T 0B3
Mohsen Khalili, "from the series Dysfunctioned Body Parts series," 2003–2018
digital photograph, dimensions variable.
Remote Gardening with DysfunctionED Tools is a 20-year retrospective of the work of Mohsen Khalili, an artist originally from Iran who resided in Abbotsford from 2002 to 2016.
Khalili emigrated to Canada in 1997 and was soon exhibiting his work regularly in the Lower Mainland. His career took an unexpected turn when he was diagnosed with a debilitating medical condition. As he continues to work with physical tools that are increasingly failing, Khalili has embraced an aesthetics of imperfection – by “making undone,” he uses his work to reflect on the universal nature of entropy, and to remind us that to have a body inherently means learning to live with failure. Funded in part by The Hamber Foundation, Remote Gardening with DysfunctionED Tools is an imaginative and lived journey of one body as it becomes dysfunctional.