A LINGERING SHADOW
Centre A and The Polygon Gallery present A Lingering Shadow, a program of short films that consider how memory becomes encoded in movement. Screening continuously WED to SUN, 10 AM to 5 PM, and until 8 PM on THU, except on July 31, at The Polygon Gallery.
Speech Acts: Zainub Verjee
Centre A is pleased to announce Speech Acts: Zainub Verjee, an exhibition that negotiates language, resistance, and artistic labour by the multidisciplinary artist, curator, writer, activist, and arts administrator Zainub Verjee.
Will Kwan: Exclusion Acts
Centre A is pleased to present “Exclusion Acts”, a solo exhibition by Toronto-based artist Will Kwan. The exhibition brings together a new body of work that takes an unflinching look at the systemic and absurd ways that economic ideology shapes social relations and beliefs.
Gu Xiong: The Remains of a Journey
Comprised of a new body of multimedia works, this exhibition by Gu Xiong revives three historic sites across British Columbia that bear the untold struggles of the Chinese immigrants. Opening virtually on November 13, 2020. Read more…
We cast Spells on the Mothers of our Daughters and Daughters of our Mothers
Centre A presents the new exhibition “We cast Spells on the Mothers of our Daughters and Daughters of our Mothers”. This exhibition will be available for viewing both in the gallery and online.
Experimental Relationship (for your eyes only, or maybe mine, too)
“Experimental Relationship (for your eyes only, or maybe mine, too)” with Brooklyn-based artist Pixy Liao is now available for viewing online until December 31, 2020. Read more…
To Be Free, Everything You Most Hate and Fear
Lucie Chan: To Be Free, Everything You Most Hate and Fear | Opening Reception: Thursday, January 23, 2020, 6 – 9 PM, with Lam Wong: the world is as soft as a volcano: a moving composition.
the world is as soft as a volcano: a moving composition
Expressed in painting and installation, ‘the world is as soft as a volcano: a moving composition’ by Lam Wong encompasses personal struggles and familial experience as agents of introspection. A collection of Wong’s recent works and part of his ongoing research into the notion of “emotion refugee”, the project delineates a delicate and hidden sense/state of being, communicated through the aftermaths of traumas, sufferings, and griefs.
Tayeba Begum Lipi: Unveiling
November 15, 2019 – December 14, 2019 — Closing Reception: December 14, 2019, 4 – 6 PM — Tayeba Begum Lipi’s work engages an embodied inquiry into the transitioning of sociocultural and sociopolitical realities. The work, Unveiling Womanhood, in this exhibition draws on the ideology of oppression in Bangladesh, further unravelling issues of female marginality, […]
Unstable Oscillation
November 7 – December 14, 2019 — Opening Reception: November 7, 2019, 6 – 8 PM | Remarks: 6:30 PM — Unstable Oscillation brings together works of two Seoul-based artists, Dahye Kim and Ye Eun Nam. In this exhibition, the artists respond to a turbulent material world that they have not been part of just […]
