no fixed abode

SFU Gallery’s latest exhibition leaves us questioning the implications of physical materials from our past

by Kim Regala, Staff Writer Drawing inspiration from Franz Kafka’s short story The Cares of a Family Man is Lyse Lemieux’s No Fixed Abode, SFU Gallery’s latest exhibition. It borrows its title from the book’s character Odradek, an abstract figure that blurs the lines between subject and object. When asked “where do you live” it simply responds by saying “no fixed abode,” indicating its lack of origin or source. Similarly, Lemieux takes on a rather surrealist approach that attempts to understand and uncover the narratives of artifacts that belong in the past. Constructing her pieces through two-dimensional and three-dimensional drawings,…

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