Audain Gallery

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When the Guests Are Not Looking: the Audain Gallery’s freshest art installation

Peak Web January 21, 2018

By: Aritro Mukhopadhyay This new installation and performance piece showcasing the works of Richard Ibghy and Marilou Lemmens explores the audience’s relationship with art itself. Awfully contemporary for its time, When the Guests Are Not Looking delves into the economics of our materialist lives and holds up a mirror to modern-day productivity.      The project extends its roots from a conversation on productivity and idleness between a philosopher and a vagabond that happens to be a part of a book named Rameau’s Nephew by Denis Diderot. This 18th-century satirical text is known to have sown the seeds of the present-day…

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A place of knowledge: SFU Galleries celebrates the university’s 50th anniversary

EIC January 12, 2015

“Art tests things,” Melanie O’Brian, director of SFU Galleries and curator of its upcoming group exhibit, Geometry of Knowing, explained to The Peak. “It pushes on the unanswerable and unstable. It shifts, and it can make people uncomfortable with space.”…

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MFA Students show off their final projects at the Audain Gallery

EIC September 8, 2014

Enjoy an evening of art, cheese, wine, and mingling with our MFA Graduate students during their opening reception of Lossless on September 10 in the Audain Gallery at the Woodward's campus! Lossless is an exhibition featuring final projects by the…

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