BFA Graduating Exhibition 2021: Supercharged

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This exhibition presents the work of students graduating with a Bachelor of Fine Arts from the School for the Contemporary Arts at SFU

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BFA Graduating Exhibition 2021April 15 – 24, 2021Tuesday - Saturday, 12 – 5PMBY APPOINTMENT ONLYAudain Gallery, 149 West Hastings StreetSTUDENT-LED TOURSSaturday, April 17, 12pmWednesday, April 21, 12pmThursday, April 22, 12pmFriday, April 23, 12pmSaturday, April 24, 12pmzeenah aalam alsamarrai, Matthew Bogdanow, Sylvia Burtenshaw, Keting Dong, Kathy Feng, Jana Ghimire, Olivia Luo, Janice Ma, Vitória Monteiro, Aynaz Parkas, Minnie Yung, and Abbey Zhang.This exhibition presents the work of visual art students graduating with a Bachelor of Fine Arts from the School for the Contemporary Arts at Simon Fraser University.The artists in the exhibition respond to a palpable charge in the air that is present in the current state of our world as we emerge from various levels of lock-down. This charge reveals a spatial tension that has become part of the familiar customs of our everyday life and also part of the specialized activities that take place in the university, the gallery, and the studio. Supercharged addresses these particular moments of tension and points to experiences between artists and audiences, as well as bodies and objects, to bring our common vulnerabilities to the fore. This supercharged tension resides in the spaces between people.The work in the exhibition consists of a variety of media including photography, sculpture, video, painting, publishing, performance, installation, and textiles, which speak to a range of complex negotiations of the intimacy of daily life that is led in both digital and physical worlds. These artworks address diverse subject matter — from the unprecedented situation of attending a loved one in their last hours through a screen, to the expression of self through online roleplay. Dreams, desire, and intimacy are explored through the sphere of the domestic. Our material world is considered through the building of archives, but also in relation to the Earth itself: where we stand and our future survival on it.Supercharged is the product of a graduating class that is actively engaged in relearning practices of productivity, community, and purpose while expressing a common aim to represent the growth and intimacy that has been provoked by our changes in proximity.The artists in the exhibition recognize that they are uninvited guests on the unceded territories of the Skwxwú7mesh (Squamish), xʷməθkwəy̓əm (Musqueam), and Səl̓ílwətaɬ (Tsleil-Waututh) peoples. The spaces in which their practices have been developed and the tensions they are investigating are indisputably situated within settler-colonial conditions.Presented by the School for the Contemporary Arts at SFU in partnership with SFU Galleries.EVENTOpen Critique with Grant ArnoldTuesday, April 20, 1pm, PDTPresented on Zoom <a href="https://www.eventbrite.ca/e/open-critique-with-grant-arnold-registration-149217091337">Registration required</a>Please join us for a free open critique of Supercharged lead by Grant Arnold, the Audain Curator of British Columbia Art at the Vancouver Art Gallery.

COVID-19 SAFETY To keep our guests and staff safe, we have implemented a number of safety protocols and precautions relating to COVID-19. Please review the following information BEFORE your visit.•	Please arrive on time for your reservation. Please do not arrive early. You will be asked to wait outside until your reservation time.•	Please conduct a <a href="https://bc.thrive.health/covid19/en" target="_blank" data-msys-clicktrack="0" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer">health self-assessment</a> on the day of your scheduled visit and do not attend if you are unwell or experiencing symptoms consistent with Covid-19.•	We ask that all visitors wear a non-medical face mask at all times for the duration of their visit.•	Visitors will be asked to sign in and sanitize their hands upon arrival (hand sanitizer will be provided).•	Visitors will be asked to maintain a safe physical distance of 2 meters apart during their visit.•	Please review our <a href="http://www.sfu.ca/content/dam/sfu/galleries/PDFfiles/AudainGallery/AUDAIN%20GALLERY%20EXHIBITIONS%20SAFETY%20PLAN%20-%20SIMON%20FRASER%20UNIVERSITY%20-%20BFAGrad2021.pdf" target="_blank" data-msys-clicktrack="0" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer">COVID-19 Safety Plan</a> before attending the exhibition. •	If you have any questions about the Exhibition or our safety protocols, please contact us at audaingallery@sfu.ca.

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