Curated by Lisa Baldissera

SHIFT: Ecologies of Fashion, Form Textile addresses the intersection of visual art, fashion and textiles, to consider these practices as worldmaking forms of knowledge production, and as a rare form of human encounter that comprises every aspect of daily life. Embracing embodiment and powerfully shaping social, cultural and political gestures and movements, this knowledge ranges from conceptual development and design, to ecological engagements, ceremonial and spiritual purposes, cultural expression and their attendant appropriations, to the animating energy of queer joy in fashion.

Through sculpture, painting, photography, and performative practices, SHIFT reflects on how garments and materials may hold a memory or shape affects, while others tell stories of their makers and their wearers, or the origins of textiles themselves. Whether fibres with long histories of cultural expression and process, or synthetically produced fabrics arising from post-war technologies with enduring and unwelcome afterlives, the question of whose hands, imaginations and lands are affected by this element shape our daily lives.

Within contemporary culture and more recently, over the course of the evolving climate crisis and pandemic, the effects of a globalized fashion industry and its aesthetics led to enquiries about consumerism and cultural appropriation alongside discussions of decolonization and globalization’s impacts and futures. SHIFT considers the ways in which power, colonialism and consumerism are expressed within fashion, both within the lives of individuals and communities, and in the fashion world as a globalized entity.

Including a symposium, residency with Vancouver artist Jaewoo Kang, and works by China Adams, Jason Dodge, Olaf Holzapfel, Brian Jungen, Annette Kelm, Christiane Lohr, Medrie MacPhee, Manuel Mathieu, Meret Oppenheim, Wolfgang Tillmans, and Janet Werner, among others, SHIFT proposes forms for an emancipating futurity, where fashion, ecology and community converge.

Opening Hours: Friday – Sunday, 12:00–5:00pm. Admission is free.

Have you always wanted to know how to start an art collection? Do you have a few works by some of your favourite artists already and want to learn more? Are you interested in meeting other collectors? Leading up to the third edition of COMBINE Art Fair, COMBINATIONS connects emerging collectors with arts specialists in Metro Vancouver.

Join us in person at Griffin Art Projects for music, light refreshments and conversation with gallerist Wil Aballe (Wil Aballe Art Projects).

Wil Aballe is the founder and director of Wil Aballe Art Projects | WAAP, established in 2013 and currently located in Strathcona. He is also a collector. The gallery’s core mandate is to promote West Coast emergent practices locally and globally, through art fairs in North America and Europe. The gallery co-founded COMBINE art fair and is a member of New Art Dealers Association (NADA), based in NYC.  Gallery artists have shown in domestic and international institutions and have been acquired in public and private collections worldwide. Late 2023, WAAP will be launching Annex, a new space in Yaletown. The gallery will initiate a program of exhibitions in Anderlecht in Brussels, Belgium starting April 2024.

To attend, registration via Eventbrite is encouraged, but drop-ins are welcome! Refreshments and snacks provided.

In 2015, the National Truth and Reconciliation Commission recommended the establishment of a statutory holiday to honour and commemorate the history and legacy of residential schools survivors, their families, communities, and Indigenous organizations. Since its adoption in 2021, Griffin Art Projects has worked with Indigenous artists to listen and learn more about their practices encompassing intergenerational knowledge and formal investigations.

This year, we are honoured to host a talk by the inaugural recipient of the Emerging Indigenous Artist Studio Award, Miriam Berndt. Her work is informed by land-based practices, unveiling family histories, and reconciling stories from her nuanced matrilineal heritage. Her multidisciplinary approach explores the use of Plains Cree art-forms, using rough construction materials and found objects to express stories of place and experience. In August 2022, Miriam launched her practice “Land-Based Art Design”. This practice combines both of her passions—art and landscape architecture—to pursue land-based art methodologies and provide decolonized architecture and planning services.

Listening to feedback from past Indigenous presenters, we have pre-recorded this talk to lessen the emotional labour leading up to and during “National Day of Truth and Reconciliation”. We are grateful for their time and generosity and we hope you can join us to listen and learn from Miriam.

Miriam Berndt is a mixed-media visual artist and landscape designer, living in cə̓snaʔəm (so-called Marpole, Vancouver, BC). Miriam is the daughter of Theresa from Kahkewistahaw First Nation, Jim of Irish ancestry, and the step-daughter of Chris from the Six Nations of the Grand River. Miriam’s work explores themes of generational healing, hybrid identity, and land-based epistemologies. She hopes her work will reveal truths, heal wounds caused by colonial violence, and uncover expressions and innovations that defy the colonial paradigm and promote a regenerative future.

The day of the event, Faune Ybarra Public Programs Coordinator, will welcome you, introduce Miriam Berndt’s pre-recorded talk, and relay any comments you might have for our presenter.

To attend online, you must register for the live stream.

Curated by Lisa Baldissera

SHIFT: Ecologies of Fashion, Form Textile addresses the intersection of visual art, fashion and textiles, to consider these practices as worldmaking forms of knowledge production, and as a rare form of human encounter that comprises every aspect of daily life. Embracing embodiment and powerfully shaping social, cultural and political gestures and movements, this knowledge ranges from conceptual development and design, to ecological engagements, ceremonial and spiritual purposes, cultural expression and their attendant appropriations, to the animating energy of queer joy in fashion.

Through sculpture, painting, photography, and performative practices, SHIFT reflects on how garments and materials may hold a memory or shape affects, while others tell stories of their makers and their wearers, or the origins of textiles themselves. Whether fibres with long histories of cultural expression and process, or synthetically produced fabrics arising from post-war technologies with enduring and unwelcome afterlives, the question of whose hands, imaginations and lands are affected by this element shape our daily lives.

Within contemporary culture and more recently, over the course of the evolving climate crisis and pandemic, the effects of a globalized fashion industry and its aesthetics led to enquiries about consumerism and cultural appropriation alongside discussions of decolonization and globalization’s impacts and futures. SHIFT considers the ways in which power, colonialism and consumerism are expressed within fashion, both within the lives of individuals and communities, and in the fashion world as a globalized entity.

Including a symposium, residency with Vancouver artist Jaewoo Kang, and works by China Adams, Jason Dodge, Olaf Holzapfel, Brian Jungen, Annette Kelm, Christiane Lohr, Medrie MacPhee, Manuel Mathieu, Meret Oppenheim, Wolfgang Tillmans, and Janet Werner, among others, SHIFT proposes forms for an emancipating futurity, where fashion, ecology and community converge.

Opening Hours: Friday – Sunday, 12:00–5:00pm. Admission is free.

Join Lisa Baldissera, Griffin Art Projects director and curator of SHIFT: Ecologies of Fashion, Form and Textile, for a hybrid (in-person and online) curator’s tour followed by audience Q&A.

SHIFT: Ecologies of Fashion, Form and Textile addresses the intersection of visual art, fashion and textiles, to consider these practices as worldmaking forms of knowledge and a human encounter that comprises every aspect of daily life. Including a residency, symposium, and works by China Adams, Jason Dodge, Olaf Holzapfel, Brian Jungen, Annette Kelm, Christiane Lohr, Medrie MacPhee, Manuel Mathieu, Meret Oppenheim, Wolfgang Tillmans, and Janet Werner, among others, SHIFT considers the ways in which power, colonialism and consumerism are expressed within fashion and proposes forms for an emancipating futurity.

This exhibition is generously supported by The Michael and Inna O’Brian Family Foundation.

To attend in person, registration via Eventbrite is encouraged but drop-ins are welcome!

Curated by Lisa Baldissera

SHIFT: Ecologies of Fashion, Form Textile addresses the intersection of visual art, fashion and textiles, to consider these practices as worldmaking forms of knowledge production, and as a rare form of human encounter that comprises every aspect of daily life. Embracing embodiment and powerfully shaping social, cultural and political gestures and movements, this knowledge ranges from conceptual development and design, to ecological engagements, ceremonial and spiritual purposes, cultural expression and their attendant appropriations, to the animating energy of queer joy in fashion.

Through sculpture, painting, photography, and performative practices, SHIFT reflects on how garments and materials may hold a memory or shape affects, while others tell stories of their makers and their wearers, or the origins of textiles themselves. Whether fibres with long histories of cultural expression and process, or synthetically produced fabrics arising from post-war technologies with enduring and unwelcome afterlives, the question of whose hands, imaginations and lands are affected by this element shape our daily lives.

Within contemporary culture and more recently, over the course of the evolving climate crisis and pandemic, the effects of a globalized fashion industry and its aesthetics led to enquiries about consumerism and cultural appropriation alongside discussions of decolonization and globalization’s impacts and futures. SHIFT considers the ways in which power, colonialism and consumerism are expressed within fashion, both within the lives of individuals and communities, and in the fashion world as a globalized entity.

Including a symposium, residency with Vancouver artist Jaewoo Kang, and works by China Adams, Jason Dodge, Olaf Holzapfel, Brian Jungen, Annette Kelm, Christiane Lohr, Medrie MacPhee, Manuel Mathieu, Meret Oppenheim, Wolfgang Tillmans, and Janet Werner, among others, SHIFT proposes forms for an emancipating futurity, where fashion, ecology and community converge.

Opening Hours: Friday – Sunday, 12:00–5:00pm. Admission is free.

Curated by Lisa Baldissera

SHIFT: Ecologies of Fashion, Form Textile addresses the intersection of visual art, fashion and textiles, to consider these practices as worldmaking forms of knowledge production, and as a rare form of human encounter that comprises every aspect of daily life. Embracing embodiment and powerfully shaping social, cultural and political gestures and movements, this knowledge ranges from conceptual development and design, to ecological engagements, ceremonial and spiritual purposes, cultural expression and their attendant appropriations, to the animating energy of queer joy in fashion.

Through sculpture, painting, photography, and performative practices, SHIFT reflects on how garments and materials may hold a memory or shape affects, while others tell stories of their makers and their wearers, or the origins of textiles themselves. Whether fibres with long histories of cultural expression and process, or synthetically produced fabrics arising from post-war technologies with enduring and unwelcome afterlives, the question of whose hands, imaginations and lands are affected by this element shape our daily lives.

Within contemporary culture and more recently, over the course of the evolving climate crisis and pandemic, the effects of a globalized fashion industry and its aesthetics led to enquiries about consumerism and cultural appropriation alongside discussions of decolonization and globalization’s impacts and futures. SHIFT considers the ways in which power, colonialism and consumerism are expressed within fashion, both within the lives of individuals and communities, and in the fashion world as a globalized entity.

Including a symposium, residency with Vancouver artist Jaewoo Kang, and works by China Adams, Jason Dodge, Olaf Holzapfel, Brian Jungen, Annette Kelm, Christiane Lohr, Medrie MacPhee, Manuel Mathieu, Meret Oppenheim, Wolfgang Tillmans, and Janet Werner, among others, SHIFT proposes forms for an emancipating futurity, where fashion, ecology and community converge.

Opening Hours: Friday – Sunday, 12:00–5:00pm. Admission is free.