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PATIE(NC)E: Christian Vistan, Kiyoshi Whitley & Surabhi Ghosh
October 11-25, 2025

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Surabhi Ghosh is an artist and educator based in Montreal. She exploits the tensions and imperfections in handmade patterns to give material and spatial form to narratives of pride and shame. Her visual strategies for prompting active viewership involve inverting the central and the peripheral, interrupting architectural edges, and disrupting the functionality and familiarity of everyday materials. Mapping points of intersection between abstraction, minimalism, and ornamentation, Ghosh speculates on ways to “trouble” these and other(ed) entwined histories. Her discursive position is developed using unruly textiles, repetitive processes, and site-responsive installations.
Christian Vistan is an artist originally from Morong, Bataan, currently living on unceded Musqueam, Squamish, and Tsleil-Waututh territories, colonially known as Vancouver, British Columbia. In their artwork they gather materials and motifs from personal, familial, and migrant histories, and translate them into forms that intersect, misidentify, and relate affect and language across painting, poetry, and collaboration. They often collaborate with other artists, writers, curators, and their relatives. They are currently the 2024-2025 Fellow at 221a in Vancouver.

Kiyoshi Whitley is an artist living and working on the Musqueam, Squamish, and Tsleil-Waututh territories, colonially known as Vancouver, British Columbia. His practice encompasses architecture, performance, woodworking, and writing.