Lossless

SFU MFA Graduating Exhibition at Audain Gallery

Photos by Ash Tanasiychuk
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Lossless, SFU MFA Graduating Exhibition at Audain Gallery. Photo by Ash Tanasiychuk

Lossless is an exhibition featuring graduating projects by MFA candidates at Simon Fraser University’s School for the Contemporary Arts. Video, sculpture, performance and installation projects by this year’s graduates share a number of related concerns, while formulating distinct frameworks for individual investigation.

Lossless, SFU MFA Graduating Opening Exhibition at Audain Gallery. Photo by Ash Tanasiychuk

Deborah Edmeades’ video work and Luciana D’Anunciação’s performances pursue questions of subjective and sensory experience. Edmeades enacts numerous tests, designed to coax out perceptual and physiological responses, in an attempt to make subjective experience visible. Working with various objects, materials and projected video, D’Anunciação makes the body and its innate sounds and rhythms strange, a visual disfiguring that generates peculiar and disconcerting embodied effects.

Deborah Edmeades: On the Validity of Illusion at Lossless, SFU MFA Graduating Exhibition at Audain Gallery. Photo by Ash Tanasiychuk

Luciana D’Anunciação ‘When will my hands become roots?’ at Lossless, SFU MFA Graduating Exhibition at Audain Gallery. Photo by Ash Tanasiychuk

Videos by Jeffrey Langille and sculptures by Avery Nabata explore temporal orders and perceptual modes. To engage with the subjects of Langille’s videos—atmospheric and geologic elements—is to yield to an altogether different temporality and assessment of “events.” Nabata’s wood sculptures are sparing, uneven and anticipatory forms that encourage the viewer to pick up where the exposed armatures leave off, bridging the distance between what’s presented and what’s perceived.

Jeffrey Langille ‘How is it that there is always something new?’ at Lossless, SFU MFA Graduating Exhibition at Audain Gallery. Photo by Ash Tanasiychuk

Lossless, SFU MFA Graduating Opening Exhibition at Audain Gallery. Photo by Ash Tanasiychuk

Nathaniel Wong draws on compressed histories and formal conventions as his subject matter and material. Invoking the codes and established practices of music and cinema, the installation, video and sculptures by Wong relate engrained creative habits, ritual acts and blithe theatricality.

Listening to Nathaniel Wong’s ‘Thus Spoke Death and Transfiguration’ at Lossless, SFU MFA Graduating Exhibition at Audain Gallery. Photo by Ash Tanasiychuk

The exhibition of a graduating project represents the culmination of a candidate’s studies, and is presented in partial fulfillment of the requirements for the degree of Master of Fine Arts.

Luciana D’Anunciação

When will my hands become roots?

Luciana D’Anunciação ‘When will my hands become roots?’ at Lossless, SFU MFA Graduating Exhibition at Audain Gallery. Photo by Ash Tanasiychuk

Deborah Edmeades

On the Validity of Illusion

Deborah Edmeades ‘On the Validity of Illusion’ at Lossless, SFU MFA Graduating Exhibition at Audain Gallery. Photo by Ash Tanasiychuk

Jeffrey Langille

How is it that there is always something new?

Jeffrey Langille ‘How is it that there is always something new?’ at Lossless, SFU MFA Graduating Exhibition at Audain Gallery. Photo by Ash Tanasiychuk

Avery Nabata

Growth, Endlessness, Blocks

Avery Nabata ‘Growth, Endlessness, Blocks’ at Lossless, SFU MFA Graduating Exhibition at Audain Gallery. Photo by Ash Tanasiychuk

Nathaniel Wong

Thus Spoke Death and Transfiguration

Lossless, SFU MFA Graduating Opening Exhibition at Audain Gallery. In foreground: Nathaniel Wong ‘Thus Spoke Death and Transfiguration.’ Photo by Ash Tanasiychuk

The exhibition runs from Sept 4 to Sept 27, 2014

Photo gallery of Lossless by Ash Tanasiychuk

Lossless, SFU MFA Graduating Exhibition at Audain Gallery. Photo by Ash Tanasiychuk

Deborah Edmeades: On the Validity of Illusion at Lossless, SFU MFA Graduating Exhibition at Audain Gallery. Photo by Ash Tanasiychuk

Lossless, SFU MFA Graduating Opening Exhibition at Audain Gallery. Photo by Ash Tanasiychuk

Lossless, SFU MFA Graduating Exhibition at Audain Gallery. (foreground: Deborah Edmeades ‘On the Validity of Illusion.’ Behind: Jeffrey Langille ‘How is it that there is always something new?’) Photo by Ash Tanasiychuk

Lossless, SFU MFA Graduating Opening Exhibition at Audain Gallery. Photo by Ash Tanasiychuk

Avery Nabata ‘Growth, Endlessness, Blocks’ at Lossless, SFU MFA Graduating Exhibition at Audain Gallery. Photo by Ash Tanasiychuk

Listening to Nathaniel Wong’s ‘Thus Spoke Death and Transfiguration’ at Lossless, SFU MFA Graduating Exhibition at Audain Gallery. Photo by Ash Tanasiychuk

Lossless, SFU MFA Graduating Exhibition at Audain Gallery. (foreground: sculpture in Nathaniel Wong’s ‘Thus Spoke Death and Transfiguration.’ Behind: Jeffrey Langille ‘How is it that there is always something new?’) Photo by Ash Tanasiychuk

Lossless, SFU MFA Graduating Exhibition at Audain Gallery. (foreground: sculpture in Nathaniel Wong’s ‘Thus Spoke Death and Transfiguration.’ Behind: Jeffrey Langille ‘How is it that there is always something new?’) Photo by Ash Tanasiychuk

Shadows of Nathaniel Wong’s ‘Thus Spoke Death and Transfiguration’ at Lossless, SFU MFA Graduating Exhibition at Audain Gallery. Photo by Ash Tanasiychuk

Listening to Nathaniel Wong’s ‘Thus Spoke Death and Transfiguration’ at Lossless, SFU MFA Graduating Exhibition at Audain Gallery. Photo by Ash Tanasiychuk

Lossless, SFU MFA Graduating Opening Exhibition at Audain Gallery. In foreground: Nathaniel Wong ‘Thus Spoke Death and Transfiguration.’ Photo by Ash Tanasiychuk

Jeffrey Langille ‘How is it that there is always something new?’ at Lossless, SFU MFA Graduating Exhibition at Audain Gallery. Photo by Ash Tanasiychuk

Listening to Nathaniel Wong’s ‘Thus Spoke Death and Transfiguration’ at Lossless, SFU MFA Graduating Exhibition at Audain Gallery. Photo by Ash Tanasiychuk

Lossless, SFU MFA Graduating Opening Exhibition at Audain Gallery. Photo by Ash Tanasiychuk

Nathaniel Wong ‘Thus Spoke Death and Transfiguration’ at Lossless, SFU MFA Graduating Exhibition at Audain Gallery. Photo by Ash Tanasiychuk

Nathaniel Wong ‘Thus Spoke Death and Transfiguration’ at Lossless, SFU MFA Graduating Exhibition at Audain Gallery. Photo by Ash Tanasiychuk

Nathaniel Wong ‘Thus Spoke Death and Transfiguration’ at Lossless, SFU MFA Graduating Exhibition at Audain Gallery. Photo by Ash Tanasiychuk

Lossless, SFU MFA Graduating Opening Exhibition at Audain Gallery. Photo by Ash Tanasiychuk

Jeffrey Langille ‘How is it that there is always something new?’ at Lossless, SFU MFA Graduating Exhibition at Audain Gallery. Photo by Ash Tanasiychuk

Lossless, SFU MFA Graduating Opening Exhibition at Audain Gallery. Photo by Ash Tanasiychuk

Deborah Edmeades ‘On the Validity of Illusion’ at Lossless, SFU MFA Graduating Exhibition at Audain Gallery. Photo by Ash Tanasiychuk

Deborah Edmeades ‘On the Validity of Illusion’ at Lossless, SFU MFA Graduating Exhibition at Audain Gallery. Photo by Ash Tanasiychuk

Deborah Edmeades ‘On the Validity of Illusion’ at Lossless, SFU MFA Graduating Exhibition at Audain Gallery. Photo by Ash Tanasiychuk

Luciana D’Anunciação ‘When will my hands become roots?’ at Lossless, SFU MFA Graduating Exhibition at Audain Gallery. Photo by Ash Tanasiychuk

Luciana D’Anunciação ‘When will my hands become roots?’ at Lossless, SFU MFA Graduating Exhibition at Audain Gallery. Photo by Ash Tanasiychuk

Luciana D’Anunciação ‘When will my hands become roots?’ at Lossless, SFU MFA Graduating Exhibition at Audain Gallery. Photo by Ash Tanasiychuk