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April 10th 5:00pm – 8:00pm
April 11th & 12th 12:00pm – 6:00 pm.
Lipont Place
4211 No. 3 Road, Richmond

Admission: Free / Optional Donation

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Photography in its vernacular form is inseparable from consumption: we tap and click through digital spaces, endlessly viewing images and sharing them for others to consume. Aftertaste presents works by Poiēsis Collective centred on the active process through which the images we absorb (and the ways images absorb us) shape our understanding and engagement with the world.

The artists in the exhibition explore photography as an act of consumption, desire, and capital, manifested in tourism, advertisement, archives, health care, and photographic material waste. Works by Jaiden George and Khim Mata Hipol challenge the touristic gaze, revealing how landscapes and culturally significant places are reduced to picturesque, consumable images. Collages by Paniz Mani unravel cultural hegemony embedded in circulating imagery, where aesthetics of white beauty are exported and reproduced in advertisements, which resonates with Sophie-Jane Brindle’s examination of commerce as an inextricable force entangled with femininity. Engaging the aesthetics of advertising, Charlie Mahoney-Volk’s billboards challenge westernized masculine archetypes. David Aquino’s discarded negatives visualize the material waste produced by analogue photography. Vanessa Denham explores how media materializes the waste of the infinite scroll. Portraits by Andream assess the personal costs of taking care of one’s health. Laura Ayres reflects on memory, endurance, and the sustaining power of visual remnants through personal archives and found imagery.

As photography is increasingly all-consuming, Aftertaste prompts reflection on how our relationship to images may already be shaped by the logic of consumption, and what it might mean to engage with images otherwise.

Poiēsis Collective gratefully acknowledges the support of the Pendulum Gallery for this exhibition.

Artist Talk: April 18th, 1:30- 3:00 pm

For more information, please visit: https://capturephotofest.com/exhibitions/aftertaste/

About Poiesis Collective:

Poiẽsis is an arts collective comprised of lens-based artists working and living on the unceded traditional territories of the xwməθkwəy̓əm (Musqueam), Sḵwx̱wú7mesh (Squamish), and səlilwətaɬ (Tsleil-Waututh) Nations (so-called Vancouver).

The term Poiēsis is from the ancient Greek word ποιεῖν (poiein), which means to make or to bring into being. Aristotle adopted the term in his Poetics, a response to Plato’s theory of mimesis in art, as introduced in The Republic. Central to our thinking as a collective, Heidegger defined the term as the “poetical bringing into appearance and concrete imagery” of that which previously did not exist.

Poiēsis Collective is a group of artists (Andream, David Aquino, Vanessa Denham, Jaiden George, Khim Mata Hipol, Paniz Mani and Charlie Mahoney-Volk) that come from widely varying backgrounds but which are united in their commitment to approach photography in a critical yet generative manner, as well as common thematic interests in self-reflectivity, staging, economies of image production and exchange, the creation and maintenance of place and self through images, the construction and deconstruction of images, (self)portraiture, and critical perspectives on race and gender.

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.

Opening Reception: April 16, 8:00pm

Exhibit: April 17 – May 23

CityScape Community ArtSpace
335 Lonsdale Ave, North Vancouver, V7M 2G3

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.

Find out more

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

Running from March 16 to April 27 at the Gathering Place, 609 Helmcken St.

Join us for the Meet the Artists event on March 25th, from 5:30 to 7:00pm, with actor and comedian Jacques Lalonde.

The exhibition is supported by the Connection Salon Collective and the Gathering Place Community Centre and the British Columbia Arts Council.