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SUMMARY: MFA Visual Art Exhibition: Digging
DESCRIPTION: The Department of Art History\, Visual Art & Theory at the Uni
 versity of British Columbia (UBC) presents Digging\, the annual exhibition 
 of new work by the 2nd-year Master of Fine Arts in Visual Art cohort
X-ALT-DESC;FMTTYPE=text/html: <p> </p><p><a href="https://ahva.cms.arts.ubc
 .ca/wp-content/uploads/sites/37/2024/09/Poster_Digging-FINAL.jpg"><img clas
 s="aligncenter wp-image-34842 size-full" src="https://ahva.cms.arts.ubc.ca/
 wp-content/uploads/sites/37/2024/09/Poster_Digging-FINAL.jpg" alt="" width=
 "1648" height="2545" /></a></p><p><span data-contrast="none">The Department
  of Art History\, Visual Art & Theory at the University of British Columbia
  (UBC) presents </span><i><span data-contrast="none">Digging</span></i><spa
 n data-contrast="none">\, the annual exhibition of new work by the 2</span>
 <span data-contrast="none">nd</span><span data-contrast="none">-</span><spa
 n data-contrast="none">year Master of Fine Arts in Visual Art cohort. The e
 xhibition takes place at the AHVA Gallery in the Audain Art Centre from Sep
 tember 18 to October 18\, 2024.</span><span data-ccp-props="{"201341983":0\
 ,"335557856":16777215\,"335559739":300\,"335559740":276}"> </span></p><p><i
 ><span data-contrast="none">Digging</span></i><br /><span data-contrast="no
 ne">Mahsa Farzi\, </span><span data-contrast="none">Sarah Haider\, Solange 
 Adum Abdala\, Vanessa Mercedes Figueroa and Yuan Wen.</span><span data-ccp-
 props="{"201341983":0\,"335557856":16777215\,"335559739":300\,"335559740":2
 76}"> </span></p><p><span data-contrast="none">September 18 – October 18\, 
 2024</span><br /><span data-contrast="none">Opening</span><span data-contra
 st="none">: Wednesday\, September 18\, 5 – 7 p.m.</span><br /><span data-co
 ntrast="none">Interdepartmental Crits: September 20</span> <span data-contr
 ast="none">& 27\, 1</span><span data-contrast="none"> p.m.</span><span data
 -ccp-props="{"201341983":0\,"335557856":16777215\,"335559739":300\,"3355597
 40":276}"> </span></p><p><span data-contrast="none">AHVA Gallery</span><br 
 /><span data-contrast="none">Audain Art Centre\, 6398 University Boulevard\
 , Vancouver</span><br /><span data-contrast="none">Gallery hours: Tuesday –
  Friday\, 12 – 4 p.m.</span></p><p><span data-contrast="none">Interrogating
  curiosity and wonder\, the artists in </span><i><span data-contrast="none"
 >Digging</span></i><span data-contrast="none"> have gone on </span><span da
 ta-contrast="none">self-exploratory journey</span><span data-contrast="none
 ">s</span><span data-contrast="none"> of revelation\, addressing memory\, l
 oss\, signs of destruction\, and physicality. A space created to discover a
 nd be discovered\, the familiar and the unfamiliar\, ideas\, memories\, jok
 es\, generational traumas and experiences. The continuous act of exposing v
 ulnerability\; what has been lost in translation but has emerged in a new f
 orm\; loss of the apparent but also the intangible physicality\; ever-chang
 ing landscapes and </span><span data-contrast="none">experiences. Mahsa Far
 zi\, </span><span data-contrast="none">Sarah Haider\, Solange Adum Abdala\,
  Vanessa Mercedes Figueroa and Yuan Wen juxtapose these concerns in their o
 wn ways of digging together.</span><span data-ccp-props="{"201341983":0\,"3
 35557856":16777215\,"335559739":300\,"335559740":276}"> </span></p><p><span
  data-contrast="none">The artists navigate through the decision-making of w
 hat to dig out and what to keep\, asking to pay attention yet conceal what 
 they decide to tuck away\, the art of mark-making\, the space of error\, fo
 rgetfulness\, remembering and questioning the reality of it all\, changing 
 its course\, looking back to the creases that shaped their lives\, praxis\,
  calibrating into the present to preserve their discoveries\, knowing when 
 is enough and what is enough to see the light of the day. The </span><span 
 data-contrast="none">a</span><span data-contrast="none">rtists address thes
 e concerns with overexposed lines over and over\, merging into disorienting
  sounds\, the fleeting scents\, inventing new language where it doesn’t exi
 st\, the jokes that cannot be translated\, the mystery of where the water e
 nds and land begins\, where the land ends and human skin begins\, revealing
  the signs of trauma and re-membering what has been lost in erasure. </span
 ></p><p><span data-contrast="none">We acknowledge that the creation and pre
 sentation of these works take place on the traditional\, ancestral\, uncede
 d territory of the xʷməθkʷəy̓əm (Musqueam) people.</span><span data-ccp-pro
 ps="{"201341983":0\,"335551550":6\,"335551620":6\,"335559740":276}"> </span
 ></p>
CATEGORIES:featured-ahva-gallery
LOCATION:AHVA Gallery\, Audain Art Centre
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