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Leslie Thornton

Nour Mobarak

Please join us to celebrate the opening of CAG's fall 2026 exhibitions: [*Nour Mobarak: Bubonic Mnemonic*](/exhibition/nour-mobarak) and [*Leslie Thornton: Peggy & Fred in Hell*](/exhibition/leslie-thornton).

All ages welcome. Cash bar.

### RSVP
No advance registration required.

Black and white still from Peggy & Fred In Hell showing a young girl looking to the right in front of fire-works-like streaks of light.

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Fall 2026

Opening Reception

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Please join us for a talk at the gallery between Nour Mobarak and CAG's Executive Director Matthew Hyland on the occasion of Mobarak's exhibition *Bubonic Mnemonic*.

### RSVP
Registration for this event is required. Secure your place on [Eventbrite](https://www.eventbrite.ca/e/cag-in-conversation-nour-mobarak-matthew-hyland-tickets-2004391580173).

### Accessibility
ASL interpretation is available on request. Requests can be accommodated up to 5 days in advance. Please contact [learning@cagvancouver.org](mailto:learning@cagvancouver.org) to book or for more information.

### Biography
Nour Mobarak (b. 1985, Cairo, Egypt) lives and works between Bainbridge Island, WA and Athens, Greece. Her recent presentations include the 2026 Whitney Biennial, New York; the 2026 Diriyah Contemporary Art Biennale, Saudi Arabia; WIELS, Brussels (2025); Serralves Museum of Contemporary Art, Porto (2025); Museum of Modern Art, New York (2024-25); Castello di Rivoli Museo d’Art Contemporanea, Turin (2024), Schinkel Pavillon, Berlin (2023); California African American Museum, Los Angeles (2024); and MIT List Visual Arts Center, Cambridge, MA (2022). Her performances have been staged at venues such as the Renaissance Society, Chicago (2022), Museum of Contemporary Art, San Diego (2020), Hammer Museum, Los Angeles (2019), LAXART, Los Angeles (2019), Stadslimeit, Antwerp (2016), and Cambridge University, UK (2010), amongst many others.

A portrait of Nour Mobarak standing at a mirrored table with her hands resting on a mushroom sculpture. She has long wavy brown hair with bleached ends, and her reflection can be seen in the mirrored table. 

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Nour Mobarak & Matthew Hyland

In Conversation

Join CAG’s Assistant Curator Aretha Pereira for a walkthrough of the current exhibitions, *Nour Mobarak: Bubonic Mnemonic* and *Leslie Thornton: Peggy & Fred in Hell*.

### Accessibility
ASL interpretation is available on request. Requests can be accommodated up to 5 days in advance. Please contact [learning@cagvancouver.org](mailto:learning@cagvancouver.org) to book or for more information.

### RSVP
No advance registration required.


Black and white still from Peggy & Fred In Hell of a cluttered interior with a chair and a desk. A grid overlays the entire image.

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with Aretha Pereira

Curatorial Tour

Sadia Shirazi

One Saturday each month, CAG invites a guest host to lead walkthroughs of our current exhibitions, offering their insights and response to the works on view. In December, we welcome Sadia Shirazi to speak on the work of Nour Mobarak.

### Accessibility
ASL interpretation is available on request. Requests can be accommodated up to 5 days in advance. Please contact [learning@cagvancouver.org](mailto:learning@cagvancouver.org) to book or for more information.

### RSVP
No advance registration required.

### Biography
Sadia Shirazi is a writer, curator and scholar. Shirazi’s criticism, essays, and interviews have been published in *e-flux*, *Frieze*, *Artforum*, *Bidoun*, and *C Magazine*, and they have contributed to numerous exhibition catalogues, monographs, edited volumes and peer-reviewed journals. Previously a curator of international art at the Tate Modern, Shirazi is currently assistant professor and Canada Research Chair in the Department of Art History, Visual Art & Theory at the University of British Columbia.

A black and white portrait of Sadia Shirazi, a person with long dark curly hair in a dark blouse and trousers, seated and looking to the right with their hands folded across their lap.

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