In February 2024, Afroquatics: A Call and Response Below the Surface, an immersive and interactive installation by then City of Victoria Artist in Residence, Kemi Craig, sparked conversations, challenge perceptions, and transported viewers into an experiential underwater landscape.
City of Victoria Artist in Residence, Kemi Craig’s immersive and interactive installation in partnership with Hololabs, sparks conversations, challenges perceptions, and transports viewers into an experiential underwater landscape. The Greater Victoria Public Library is offering a reading list that will help you dive even deeper.
Crossing: Art, Heritage and Personal Journeys opened on the Lunar New Year, February 10, and by no coincidence. Crossing delves into the intricate narratives of three local artists, who, along with their families, embarked on transformative journeys from Asia to Canada.
Vancouver-based artist Howie Tsui (Tsui Ho Yan / 徐浩恩) is currently in the process of installing Retainers of Anarchy at the AGGV. In anticipation of the opening, on June 12, Tsui spoke with us about his art practice in an e-interview.
By Michelle Jacques, Chief Curator
This past summer, from August 20th – 30th, artists Connie Michele Morey and Taryn Walker created a site-responsive exhibition in the car shop of the Roundhouse at Bayview Place in Vic West.
To Talk With Others responds to the minutes of a meeting in August of 1977 between Prime Minister Pierre Elliot Trudeau and five Yukon First Nations leaders regarding the then-approved Mackenzie Pipeline.
With the recent opening of To Talk With Others, organized by the Yukon Arts Centre, the AGGV Collections team discusses the challenges and processes that go into a travelling exhibition.
Enter the darkened Centennial Gallery at the AGGV and vicariously experience what it would be like to travel as a virtual camera moving around the sculptural looping installation that has been constructed out of tubular steel in the centre of the room. Film Path/Camera Path with under-titles is a conceptual multi-media artwork that combines the moving images of film with a sculptural expansion of a 35mm projector.
Opening at the Gallery in June is a body of new work by Victoria-based artist Megan Dickie. Blue Skies features video and sculpture installation that resist easy interpretations.
By Audrey Wang, AGGV Volunteer
The exhibition Minimalism: Space. Light. Object. featured more than 150 works by artists from Europe, America, Australia and Asia, with the intention to document the history of this art movement that continues to inform the visual arts and contemporary practitioners today.