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SUMMARY: MFA Visual Art Exhibition: Loosely Bound
DESCRIPTION: The Department of Art History\, Visual Art & Theory at the Uni
 versity of British Columbia (UBC) presents Loosely Bound\, the annual exhib
 ition of new work by the 2nd-year Master of Fine Arts in Visual Art cohort.
X-ALT-DESC;FMTTYPE=text/html: <p><span data-contrast="auto"><a href="https:
 //ahva.cms.arts.ubc.ca/wp-content/uploads/sites/37/2025/08/Loosely-Bound-Po
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 ht="958" /></a><br />The Department of Art History\, Visual Art & Theory at
  the University of British Columbia (UBC) presents </span><i><span data-con
 trast="auto">Loosely Bound</span></i><span data-contrast="auto">\, the annu
 al exhibition of new work by the 2</span><span data-contrast="auto">nd</spa
 n><span data-contrast="auto">-year Master of Fine Arts in Visual Art cohort
 . The exhibition takes place at the AHVA Gallery in the Audain Art Centre f
 rom September 17 to October 31\, 2025.</span><span data-ccp-props="{"201341
 983":0\,"335559740":240}"> </span></p><p><i><span data-contrast="auto">Loos
 ely Bound</span></i><br /><span data-contrast="auto">Natalie Chan\, Violet 
 Johnson\, Amanda Kachadoorian Jordi\, Nevada Lynn\, Scott Massey\, and Golr
 iz Rezvani.</span><span data-ccp-props="{"201341983":0\,"335559740":240}"> 
 </span></p><p><span data-contrast="auto">September 17–October 31\, 2025</sp
 an><span data-ccp-props="{"201341983":0\,"335559740":240}"><br /></span><sp
 an data-contrast="auto">Reception: Thursday\, September 18\, 5–8 p.m.</span
 ><span data-ccp-props="{"201341983":0\,"335559740":240}"><br /></span><span
  data-contrast="auto">Interdepartmental Crits: September 26 & October 3\, 1
  p.m.</span><span data-ccp-props="{"201341983":0\,"335559740":240}"> </span
 ></p><p><span data-contrast="auto">AHVA Gallery</span><span data-ccp-props=
 "{"201341983":0\,"335559740":240}"><br /></span><span data-contrast="auto">
 Audain Art Centre\, 6398 University Boulevard\, Vancouver</span><span data-
 ccp-props="{"201341983":0\,"335559740":240}"><br /></span><span data-contra
 st="auto">Gallery hours: Tuesday–Friday\, 12–4 p.m. </span><span data-ccp-p
 rops="{"201341983":0\,"335559740":240}"> </span></p><p><i><span data-contra
 st="auto">Loosely Bound</span></i><span data-contrast="auto"> brings togeth
 er six artists in UBC’s MFA Visual Arts program whose diverse practices spa
 n photography\, sculpture\, painting\, performance\, and installation. The 
 works sit in proximity—linked by layered materiality\, evolving inquiries\,
  and a shared attentiveness to transformation and artistic process.</span><
 span data-ccp-props="{"201341983":0\,"335559740":240}"> </span></p><p><span
  data-contrast="auto">Participating artists include Natalie Chan\, Violet J
 ohnson\, Amanda Kachadoorian Jordi\, Nevada Lynn\, Scott Massey\, and Golri
 z Rezvani.</span><span data-ccp-props="{"201341983":0\,"335559740":240}"> <
 /span></p><p><span data-contrast="auto">Highlights include Amanda Kachadoor
 ian Jordi’s </span><i><span data-contrast="auto">Paper Weight</span></i><sp
 an data-contrast="auto">\, a cast-paper and concrete sculptural series deri
 ved from bureaucratic documents that explores the psychological weight of a
 dministrative systems\; Golriz Rezvani’s unsettling domestic installation\,
  where fragile materials decompose over time to evoke the female grotesque\
 ; Natalie Chan’s self-portrait installation and live performance series </s
 pan><i><span data-contrast="auto">Paper Daughter</span></i><span data-contr
 ast="auto">\, which spans past\, present\, and future in an exploration of 
 healing\, heritage\, and the complexities of second-generation identity\; V
 iolet Johnson’s photosculptural staircases\, which draw on intergenerationa
 l memory\, mother-daughter relationships\, and material attachments across 
 generations to examine familial histories through water and light\; Nevada 
 Lynn’s </span><i><span data-contrast="auto">we-buffalo</span></i><span data
 -contrast="auto">\, multi-media works that celebrate buffalo repatriation a
 nd honour the buffalo as a keeper of kinship between land\, animals\, and I
 ndigenous nations\; and Scott Massey’s </span><i><span data-contrast="auto"
 >The Distance of a Thing</span></i><span data-contrast="auto"> and </span><
 i><span data-contrast="auto">Even a Stoppered Clock</span></i><span data-co
 ntrast="auto">\, which consider time at vastly different scales—from the de
 ep history held in mirror-polished anthracite coal to the imperceptible ste
 ps of physics’ smallest units—inviting reflection on our brief human span.<
 /span><span data-ccp-props="{"201341983":0\,"335559740":240}"> </span></p><
 p><span data-contrast="auto">Together\, these artists engage the thresholds
  of time\, identity\, land\, and memory—opening space for transformation an
 d renewal.</span><span data-ccp-props="{"201341983":0\,"335559740":240}"> <
 /span></p><p><span data-contrast="auto">We acknowledge that the UBC Vancouv
 er campus is situated within the traditional\, ancestral\, and unceded terr
 itory of the xʷməθkʷəy̓əm (Musqueam).</span></p><p>[buttons][button link_te
 xt="Loosely Bound Exhibition Brochure" link_url="https://ahva.cms.arts.ubc.
 ca/wp-content/uploads/sites/37/2025/10/Loosely-Bound-BrochureUpdated-Sept16
 -compressed.pdf"][/buttons]</p>
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