Svava Tergesen

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Open Studio is a monthly program for young visitors and families inspired by contemporary art practices and CAG’s current exhibitions. Please join us for an art-making workshop designed by artist Svava Tergesen and led by CAG staff. 

Inspired by Michelle Bui’s upcoming exhibition *Mutable Materialism*, participants will be invited to create unique sculptures made out of food, learning different techniques and approaches to building their very own sculptural creations with kitchen staples. 

Svava Tergesen (b. 1993, Vancouver, BC, Canada) is an interdisciplinary artist working primarily in photography.  Combining elements of sculpture, collage and cooking, her work reimagines everyday experiences of domesticity, gender and health. Tergesen’s recent commission with the City of Vancouver, *Garnished Sundries*, was on view on 20 bus shelters around Vancouver in January 2021.  She has exhibited at the Polygon Gallery in North Vancouver, and was recently long-listed for the New Generation Photography Prize.

### RSVP
A limited number of spots will be available. To attend the event in person, please register via Eventbrite [here](https://www.eventbrite.ca/e/open-studio-food-as-sculpture-with-svava-tergesen-tickets-294949450747). 

### COVID-19
All children must be accompanied by an adult. Masks are requested for all ages 5 and up. Vaccine passports will be checked for participants 12 years and older.

If you are unwell on the day of the workshop, please stay home! We’ll look forward to welcoming you to another Open Studio event soon.

For any questions, please email [learning@cagvancouver.org](mailto:learning@cagvancouver.org)


A detail of a photo-based artwork by Svava Tergesen. The image shows a food sculpture that Tergesen made out of citrus fruits. 

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Food as Sculpture by Svava Tergesen

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Michelle Bui

Bringing both a painterly and sculptural approach to her photographic practice, Montreal-based artist Michelle Bui operates within the visual language of the still life. Working with an array of everyday, seemingly unremarkable materials, Bui creates assemblages for the camera, building alluring scenes through processes of accumulating, merging, manipulating, and resituating. 
 
In *Mutable Materialism*, an exhibition presented on the CAG façade and at Yaletown-Roundhouse Station, Bui offers two new suites of images, each a reflection on the relationships between sense, sensation and desire. Whether referencing the seductive language of advertising, the tactility of the touch-screen, or the conventions of commercial packaging and display, Bui’s works engage and confuse, coaxing incongruous forms into conversation with one another to invite reflection on the ways we connect with and consume objects and images alike.
 
### Biography
Michelle Bui is a Montreal-based artist working in photography and sculpture. Her research revolves around the inseparable conjuncture between material culture and identity, opening it to a shifted place where sensory identity can unfold. Recent solo exhibitions include *Objects for an Audience*, Galerie Rad Hourani, Montreal (2020); *Spilled Plenitude*, Franz Kaka, Toronto (2020); *Centerfold*, Parisian Laundry, Montreal (2019); *Plein Soleil*, Circa, Montreal (2019); *Pool of Plenty*, Galerie de l'UQAM, Montreal (2018). Her work was also included in group shows at Maison de la culture Claude-Léveillée, Montreal; Paul Robeson Galleries at Rutgers University, Newark; Projet Pangée, Montreal; and Vu Photo, Quebec City. Bui completed her MA at Université du Québec à Montréal and at Beaux-arts de Paris, and her BFA at Concordia University.

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CAG_MichelleBui_ExhibitionGuide_LargePrint.pdf

A photographic work by Michelle Bui. Diffuse colours and indecipherable plant matter appear beneath a layer of wrinkled plastic film. Sparse flowers and petals are sprinkled across the picture plane.

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A view of the Contemporary Art Gallery building from across the street. The windows are  covered with vinyl photographs depicting diffuse colour,  indecipherable plant matter and wrinkled plastics. 

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An askance view of the outside of CAG. Vinyl photographs, depicting diffuse colours and indecipherable plant matter appearing beneath a layer of wrinkled plastic film cover the windows. 

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An exterior view of three of CAG’s windows covered with vinyl photographs depicting diffuse colours and indecipherable plant matter, which appear beneath a layer of wrinkled plastic film. 

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An exterior view of two of CAG’s windows covered with vinyl photographs depicting diffuse colours and indecipherable plant matter, which appear beneath a layer of wrinkled plastic film. 

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A corner view of Yaletown-Roundhouse train station covered entirely in seven large-scale, colourful still-life photographs. The images depict a variety of singular flowers with various objects. 

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Two large-scale still life photographs printed in vinyl cover an entire side of Yaletown-Roundhouse station. The images depict singular flowers with various objects on pink and brown backgrounds. 

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