NOMADS

NOMADS
July 6 – Aug 30, 2025

Wil Aballe
1375 Railspur Alley, Vancouver, BC
Summer Hours: Thurs – Mon, 12-5 PM
Tues & Wed by appointment only

For inquiries please contact Wil Aballe, wil@waapart.com

Caroline Achaintre
Joan Balzar
Ghislain Brown-Kossi
Hank Bull
Steven Cottingham
Christos Dikeakos
Jacob Dyrenforth
Alex Gibson
Alan Hunt
Robert Klein
Lyse Lemieux
Glenn Lewis
Michael Morris
Brad Phillips
Cheyenne Rain LeGrande ᑭᒥᐊᐧᐣ
Paloma Ruiz Chong
Dion Smith-Dokkie
Rolande Souliere

“From madness to nomadness” – Robert Filiou

In conceiving a salon-style, dynamically changing show for our first summer on Granville Island, the notion of “nomads” became predominant in this exhibition’s development. On one hand, we were thinking of Robert Filiou’s quote above, originally shared with us by Hank Bull. In parallel, we were also thinking of artists as travellers or wanderers, whose practices have leaned on the notion of movement as paramount, and perhaps have taken inspiration from the vistas traversed. Movement also evokes transformation, and perhaps experimentation. Having recently participated in travelling shows and art fairs, the concept of art objects as being nomadic through constant reconfiguration is fresh on our mind. This perhaps also reflects some of our artists’ practices that deal with reconfiguring their works site-specifically. We have become enamoured with artistic practices that are about flux, that continue to transform in ideas and meanings over periods of time. Theoretically we were also transfixed with the idea of “nomadic thought” introduced by Deleuze and Guattari, which explains thought that does not operate linearly, but rather not unlike a tree structure. A curation that takes twists and turns with curiosity. By communing with the works in the show, we hope it offers a transformative mental state and moment of peace, away from the madness of the contemporaneous moment to the free-spirited perspective of nomadness.