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URL:https://events.ufv.ca/events/aide-memoire-reception/
SUMMARY:Aide-Memoire Reception
DESCRIPTION:Aide-Memoire Reception\n\n\n\nReception: Wednesday\, April 1\, 
 2:00 pm-4:00 pm\nOn view: March 10-April 7\, 2026\n\nAide-Memoire brings t
 ogether emerging artists to explore the notion of “archival silences\,
 ” specifically how gaps in a body of records might be interpreted in rel
 ation to marginalized lived experiences. The works investigate how these g
 aps can be an invitation to claim space and construct one’s own archive 
 in the present.\n\nFeaturing recent sculpture work by Melanie Jones (UFV S
 chool of Creative Arts Associate Professor) alongside work by SoCA student
  artists and alumni Aiyana Barnett\, Chandradeep Majumder\, Gabriel Fiset\
 , and Sien Tolmie.\n\nThis exhibit is connected to Jones’ larger sculptu
 re practice\, which is engaged with themes of identity\, queer lived exper
 ience and an ongoing fascination with furniture and found objects. As quee
 r bodies are attacked\, policed\, and legislated around the world\, queer 
 artists like Jones are forced to grapple with the prevailing historical re
 cord of their existence\, including the frequent erasure of LGBTQIA+ voice
 s and the validity of their lived identities.\n\nIn this collection of wor
 ks\, materiality\, queerness and the subjective archive intersect in Jones
 ’ work through a series of sculptures that deploy the drawer and other f
 ound objects as signifiers for memory. In these works\, Jones centers the 
 object-ness of the drawer itself\, separate from the usual enclosing furni
 ture\, as an “aide-memoire” (translation: aid to memory). Drawers stor
 e and conceal objects and archival information\, but can also be opened to
  reveal them\, therefore occupying a liminal space between access and rest
 riction – a transitional area between one state and another. Using wax\,
  fur\, text\, ceramics and other materials\, the drawer is deployed as a s
 tand-in for the artist’s queer non-binary body\, building a visceral arc
 hive of self-discovery.\n\nThe student artists were invited to respond to 
 Jones’ research and themes through their own lived experiences\, resulti
 ng in a series of individual and collaborative works that claim space for 
 marginalized voices by opposing the power and limitations of the tradition
 al archive.\n\nThe exhibition opens on March 10 at the S’eliyemetaxwtexw
  Art Gallery\, located on the UFV Abbotsford campus\, and runs through unt
 il April 7.\n\nA reception will be held on Wednesday\, April 1\, from 2:00
  pm - 4:00 pm in the gallery. All are welcome to attend\, and admission is
  free.\n\nFor more information\, contact SAG.Gallery@ufv.ca or visit our w
 ebsite!\n\nS’eliyemetaxwtexw Art Gallery\, Room B136\, B Building\nGalle
 ry hours 12:00 pm-5:00 pm\, Monday-Friday University of the Fraser Valley\
 n33844 King Road\, Abbotsford BC\, Canada
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