April 4-10, 2025
\nReception: April 10, 3-6pm<\/p>\n
<\/p>\n
A Note from the Researcher \/ Artist<\/b><\/p>\n
This exhibition was built from what remains.<\/p>\n
To piece together the gallery\u2019s beginnings, a new newspaper archive was created. The process has been both meticulous and murky\u2014like archival work itself. This isn\u2019t a comprehensive or chronological history. It\u2019s a selection built from intuition and curiosity, drawn from clippings documenting the first decade of what was then the Fraser Valley Art Gallery.<\/p>\n
The title, Frozen Moments of Timeless Travel<\/em>, is borrowed from a single lithograph by Vince Hilborn featured in a 1979 group show. The phrase evokes both the stillness of the archive and the movement of memory\u2014how fragments of the past continue to travel forward in time.<\/p>\n What does it mean to revisit, restore, and reimagine a history nearly lost?<\/p>\n Some exhibitions were noted only in passing, many left out and forgotten altogether. What is left reveals what was noticed, what was valued, and how art and culture were framed at the time.<\/p>\n The clippings in this exhibit reflect the lens of a particular place and era. Their omissions and language\u2014sometimes dated or incomplete\u2014ask us to read with context and consider whose stories were preserved, and whose were left out.<\/p>\n Images in this exhibit repeat and resurface\u2014cropped, pixelated, ghostly. They stand in for entire exhibitions, evoking what can no longer be fully known. In doing so, they become icons of something larger than themselves. Not fixed memories, but entry points\u2014for reflection, speculation, and curiosity.<\/p>\n This project also honours the many artists, students, faculty, and community members who shaped the gallery\u2019s evolving identity. From its earliest iteration in a hallway at Fraser Valley College\u2019s Marshall Road campus, to the establishment of a permanent gallery space in the early 1980s, to its current home as the S\u2019eliyemetaxwtexw Art Gallery on UFV\u2019s King Road campus\u2014the gallery has always been more than a place to display art.<\/p>\n Interdisciplinary and cross-media practices were present from the start\u2014through installations, performance, textiles, and community-based work\u2014and remain central to the gallery\u2019s vision as a space for creative learning, experimentation, and cultural dialogue.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" April 4-10, 2025 Reception: April 10, 3-6pm A Note from the Researcher \/ Artist This exhibition was built from what remains. To piece together the gallery\u2019s beginnings, a new newspaper archive was created. The process has been both meticulous and murky\u2014like archival work itself. This isn\u2019t a comprehensive or chronological history. It\u2019s a selection […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":9,"featured_media":5943,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[90,38],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5897","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-90","category-exhibitions"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sag.ufvsoca.ca\/sag\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5897","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sag.ufvsoca.ca\/sag\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sag.ufvsoca.ca\/sag\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sag.ufvsoca.ca\/sag\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/9"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sag.ufvsoca.ca\/sag\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5897"}],"version-history":[{"count":9,"href":"https:\/\/sag.ufvsoca.ca\/sag\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5897\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5948,"href":"https:\/\/sag.ufvsoca.ca\/sag\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5897\/revisions\/5948"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sag.ufvsoca.ca\/sag\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/5943"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sag.ufvsoca.ca\/sag\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5897"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sag.ufvsoca.ca\/sag\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5897"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sag.ufvsoca.ca\/sag\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5897"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}