MFA Graduating Exhibition 2019: Currents

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Graeme Wahn, "Flow," 2019

courtesy the artist.

Presenting interdisciplinary projects by artists Minahil Bukari, Graeme Wahn and Amy Wilson, Currents offers unique insight into the practices of three MFA candidates working in the visual arts. These projects combine distinct practices and process-based research that span installation, performance, photography, and drawing. 

Minahil Bukhari's I am her, she is me (2019) is an installation that analyses the biases and violence of archival systems found in patrilineal descent while offering crucial insights into her own family history of gendered injustice. The scope of Bukhari's work operates within the parameters of political minimalism and offers an opportunity for a visual dialogue with its viewers.

Graeme Wahn's Revealers (2019) is a collection of recent photographs, painted works, sculptural objects and drawings. Rooted in the idea of photographic exposure, each work separately examines how light interacts with thresholds, forms, impressions, and gives shape to multiple and diverse visual worlds. Rather than considering the transferences of light as having any kind of processual resolution, these works are formed under the leitmotif that light is a field and, as such, is constantly active — before, during and after images are formed. What necessitates an image and in what ways can the logic of the camera be projected towards other conventions of image-making?

In a time of ecological collapse, Amy Wilson's Edgelands (2019) considers the potentialities of making, speaking, mourning, caring, and growing with beings and forces that are other-than-human. By merging propositional and lived modes of making and care, Edgelands asks how such articulations can engage with ethics of care. Working with soil communities from the northwestern coasts of Scotland and Canada, Wilson's research focuses on the life ways of plants and the vegetative microorganism mycelium indigenous to these regions. As rhythyms of human and nonhuman construction enfold, so too do landscapes, weaving together care practices within and across species, lands and timescapes. 

OPENING RECEPTION

WED, SEP 4 / 7 - 9PM

Audain Gallery, Vancouver

PERFORMANCES: Edgelands with Amy Wilson

THU, SEP 5 / 12:30PM

SAT, SEP 7 / 12:15PM

TUE, SEP 10 / 12:30PM, 3:30M

THU, SEP 12 / 12:30PM, 3:30M

SAT, SEP 14 / 12:15PM

TUE, SEP 17 / 12:30PM, 3:30M

THU, SEP 19 / 12:30PM, 3:30M

SAT, SEP 21 / 12:15PM, 3:30M

Audain Gallery, Vancouver