Scott Kemp, *System (sneaker to cereal)*, 2025, magazine cutouts, plastic, adhesive, wood, 86 x 81 cm. Courtesy of the Artist.

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.

Steven Cottingham, *Sacrificed so it could be quantified (Urban camo for construction site)*, 2023, inkjet print on canvas, grommets, thread, 182 x 163 cm. Courtesy of the Artist and Wil Aballe Art Projects.

Scott Kemp, System (sneaker to cereal), 2025, magazine cutouts, plastic, adhesive, wood, 86 x 81 cm. Courtesy of the Artist.

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.

Steven Cottingham, Sacrificed so it could be quantified (Urban camo for construction site), 2023, inkjet print on canvas, grommets, thread, 182 x 163 cm. Courtesy of the Artist and Wil Aballe Art Projects.

Selected

Experiments in Photography: Image and Object

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Curator

Avery Hannig

Artists

Solange Adum Abdala, Sophia Bakos, Phoebe Bei, Steven Cottingham, Emily De Boer, Lucien Durey, Stephanie Gagne, Khim Mata Hipol, Scott Kemp, Val Loewen, Alexine McLeod, Aaron Moran, Morgan Sears Williams, Grant Withers, Gerri York, Ketty Haolin Zhang

Exhibition Dates

Apr 17 – May 23, 2026

Opening Reception
Thursday, April 16, 6 – 8 pm
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Experiments in Photography: Image and Object is a survey featuring the work of Solange Adum Abdala, Sophia Bakos, Phoebe Bei, Steven Cottingham, Emily De Boer, Lucien Durey, Stephanie Gagne, Khim Mata Hipol, Scott Kemp, Val Loewen, Alexine McLeod, Aaron Moran, Morgan Sears Williams, Grant Withers, Gerri York, and Ketty Haolin Zhang. This exhibition brings together diverse practices that challenge the traditional boundaries of photography.

At its core, Image and Object explores the dynamic intersection of photography, sculpture, and installation. Here, photography transcends the flat surface, emerging as a spatial, tactile, and conceptual practice. The selected works reimagine the photograph not simply as a visual record, but as a physical entity, shaped by process and materiality. Whether through layering, object-making, assemblage, or installation, these works ask viewers to encounter photography as something to be experienced with the body as much as the eye.

The exhibition highlights inventive uses of materials including paper, wood, film, fabric, resin, plastic, metal, and found objects. By engaging with these materials, the artists blur the lines between disciplines, transforming the photograph into sculpture, the image into an object, and the wall into space.

Image and Object reflects the rich creative energy of Metro Vancouver’s contemporary art scene and celebrates photography as a living, evolving medium. In rethinking what a photograph can be, the exhibition invites audiences to see and navigate photographic works in bold new ways.

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