Solange Adum Abdala, Crónicas del Siglo XX, 2025, inkjet print on archival rolled paper 6 rolls, 45 x 431 cm each. Courtesy of the Artist and the Morris and Helen Belkin Art Gallery.

Event poster. Courtesy of North Van Arts.

Workshop

Workshop | Date Night: Palimpsest Photography at CityScape Gallery

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Event Dates

Apr 23, 2026

Time

6:30 pm – 8:30 pm

ADMISSION
$40 for 1 guest, $70 for 2 guests

Registration required.

Join interdisciplinary visual artist Solange Adum Abdala for a hands-on exploration of photography, light, and layered storytelling. This Date Night draws on their work in the exhibition Experiments in Photography: Image and Object, as part of Capture.

Working with light, thin pages and cutouts, we will activate printed materials, discovering what publications conceal and seeing the revealed in new ways, like a three-dimensional collage. Using flashlights, lamps, and a lightbox, we will create photographs and interventions that engage with photography, archives, writing, and memory. The workshop will provide a playful and reflective space to rethink how we see and what lies beneath the surface. By the end of the workshop, participants will take home a set of digital photographs, along with their own intervened book containing cutouts, overlays, and illuminated discoveries that capture the layered effects explored.

North Van Arts is also hosting a second photography-based Date Night on Scanography with Hân Pham on May 7 from 6:30pm – 8:30pm.

Solange Adum Abdala (b. 1980, Peru. Based in Vancouver) is an interdisciplinary visual artist. Her research oscillates at the intersection of photography, history, and knowledge of nature, both from scientific and sensorial perspectives. Her artistic practice is presented as a «de/re/construction» of photographic apparatus and landscape. She has had five solo shows and participated in group exhibitions, festivals, and art fairs across the Americas, Europe, and Asia. She won First Place at the ICPNA Photography Salon (2011) and received several awards, including UBC’s Affiliated Fellowships Master’s Program (2024) and selection for Collage: Women of the Prix Pictet since 2008 (2023). She holds an MFA in Visual Arts from UBC and two undergraduate degrees in Photography and Direction of Visual Projects from the Centro de la Imagen (Peru).