01/28/2025
There’s still time to see Stay Right Here, a solo exhibition from painter and ECU alum Aiden Kierkegaard (MFA 2024). 🖼️
In Stay Right Here, painting becomes an artistic mode through which Aiden Kirkegaard accesses personal memories and imagines alternative realities. In Kirkegaard’s practice, her physical studio space becomes a dwelling place for dreaming. In large-scale shaped canvases, imagery of doorways and windows from Aiden’s previous homes function as a place of origin in the work.
Memories, even those unremembered, line the walls of the spaces we grew up in, they are embedded and woven into its architecture. This imagery is used as a space to hold and embrace playful mark-making and colour application. While their reference to home architecture is rooted in real spaces, the paintings are also imaginary. Paint is scraped, poured, canvases cut and collaged, all representing moments spoken and movements made in domestic spaces.
This collection of work examines how the painted mark traces memory, these paintings become a vessel that holds on to what is remembered while giving way to the plasticity of those memories.
January 24 - February 1, 2025
THIS Gallery
Lower Ground Level
30E - 268 Keefer Street
Vancouver, BC
ID1: The poster for the exhibition features one of Aiden’s paintings. The colours featured are vibrant green and blue hues with a large splatter of bright yellow forming a focal point. Black bars with white text provide information on the exhibition and gallery.
ID2: A photograph of Aiden standing between two of her works, in a gallery setting. She is relaxed, smiling and looking to the left of the frame. She wears a buttoned-up striped shirt and off-white trousers.
