GALLERY HOURS
Tuesday to Saturday | 10:00 AM - 4:00 PM | Free Admission
STORIES For FUTURES:
REAL AND IMAGINED
Opening Reception
Saturday, January 13, 2024 | 2:00-4:00 PM
Exhibition
January 13 - March 9, 2024
Stories for Futures – Real and Imagined is a duo exhibition featuring works on paper, watercolour paintings, and fabric installations by Vancouver-based artists Diyan Achjadi and Sara Khan. Sharing scenes from their respective homelands of Indonesia and Pakistan, the artists bring memories, stories and cultural contexts into the future.
Achjadi and Kahn create worlds real and imagined, illuminated in vivid colours and patterns. The works form multilayered scenes of overlapping waterways, plant life, human relations, and non-human characters. Through storytelling, boundaries are softened between the fantastical and factual.
FREE EVENT: INSIDE/OUT TOUR AND TALK
Guest speaker: Dr. Prabhjot Parmar, Associate Professor in Faculty of English at University of the Fraser Valley
Saturday, February 10, 2:00-3:30pm (limited seating, free of charge, registration required)
Dr. Prabhjot Parmar will link her research interests of South Asian and postcolonial literatures, and migration and diaspora studies with the focus on storytelling within the Stories for Futures – Real and Imagined exhibition. Responding to the artworks of Diyan Achjadi and Sara Khan, Dr. Parmar will lead a one hour discussion/based talk following a 30 minute Curator’s tour of the exhibition.
ABOUT THE SERIES: Inside/Out is a series of talks and discussions that takes selected ACT Art Gallery exhibitions as the catalyst to explore larger social, cultural, and artistic issues. The series welcomes thinkers and writers from a wide variety of disciplines whose work gives a broader context to exhibitions in the gallery.
ABOUT THE ARTISTS
Diyan Achjadi is a Vancouver-based artist who explores the ways that surface ornamentation and illustrated printed matter can function as archives documenting the circulation of ideas in visual form. Born in Jakarta, Indonesia, her formative years were spent moving between multiple educational, political, and cultural systems. Diyan is a Professor in the Audain Faculty of Art at Emily Carr University of Art and Design.
Born in Birmingham, England, and raised in Lahore, Pakistan, Sara Khan holds a BFA from the National College of Arts, Lahore. A participant in notable art residences and festivals in Norway and Canada, her vibrant journey took her to solo and group exhibitions globally, including Surrey Art Gallery and The Reach Gallery and Museum. Today, she continues to create from her base in Vancouver, Canada.
