Offsite exhibitions are organized by the Gallery’s Preparator/Exhibition Coordinator and generally draw from works from the City of Burnaby Permanent Art Collection. Offsite exhibitions also present opportunities for emerging and local artists to present their work to a wide audience.
Two Burnaby library locations, Bob Prittie Metrotown Library and McGill Library, host these exhibitions.
Please note: Due to construction at McGill Library, Burnaby Art Gallery offsite exhibitions are currently paused at this location.
Damla Tamer: Solidarity of Fragments
October 8-December 18, 2024
Bob Prittie Library
6100 Willingdon Ave, Burnaby
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By weaving, knotting, twisting, packing, unraveling, and dissolving fibres, Damla Tamer exercises a deep care for craft and its physical possibilities in a material-bound yet symbol-laden world. Her most recent work focuses on tracing the rise of neoliberal authoritarianism in Turkey and its relation to global movements, the evolution of forms of civil protest and resistance, and the capacities and limits of language and representation in locating oneself in a world that is rife with shifts. Yerine / In Lieu (2022) explores the dual capacities of language: how language generates and destroys, complicates and flattens, orders and messes up, and creates sense and makes no sense at all. When fragments are scattered, what could a feminine reorganization of relating to one another look like? Are our previous ways of staying together still legitimate? When our sensed linearity of time is broken, what grows from the fracture point?
Artist Talk and Closing Reception
Saturday, December 14, 2-3 pm
Free, no registration required.
Program Room, 1st Floor
Bob Prittie Library
6100 Willingdon Ave, Burnaby
Join us for an artist talk by Damla Tamer in celebration of the closing of her exhibition Solidarity of Fragments. Light refreshments will be provided.
Damla Tamer is a visual artist and educator. Her practice engages with the intersections of textile crafts and contemporary studio practices, with a special focus on weaving. Tamer’s work is heavily invested in searching for a new ethics of temporality through the relationships between aesthetics and politics.