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Main Floor
 

February 25 - March 15, 2025

Reception: 

Thursday Feb. 27 | 7-9 p.m. | FAB Gallery
(view the PDF e-vite)

About the show:

Through print-media, Tamara Deedman Investigates how inherited objects hold the physical and emotional weight of human connection, memory, grief, and trauma. Deedman regards these objects as reliquaries; physical keepers of her relationship with her late father and markers of intergenerational coping mechanisms.

Beyond the threshold of the large rolling doors is a gateway - in lies a trove of treasures: cases of can tabs, binders filled with antique coins, and wardrobes crowded with family mementos, hand written archives and obsolete technology. Each item had been deemed precious, meticulously stored to preserve its original, ideal state. But as the dust settles, the burden (and pleasures) of her late father’s storage unit come into focus. How is she going to deal with it all?

Crowded by your Absence is about processing and transforming family archives – simultaneously treasured collections and hoarded trash – to wrestle with the phenomenon of object attachment as a coping mechanism. This body of work explores notions of human attachment to objects that hold both physical and emotional space, and how these occupy memory, identity, and grief. On a much more personal level, through her father’s archive, Deedman questions what objects can tell us about coping with embodied trauma. Positioning the work in conversation with her father’s belongings to explore how one “recognizes the embedded vulnerabilities of memory, inhibition, human existence, the precariousness of home, and the politics of belonging” (Lauzon 2017) through inherited objects. Navigating both her father’s absence and the surplus of his objects, Deedman explores how these items materialize relationships within domestic spaces. More importantly, considering how they mark endurance, trauma, and coping mechanisms; every collected item is a signifier and a reminder of her father's addiction and substance abuse.

Claudette Lauzon. The Unmaking of Home in Contemporary Art. University of Toronto Press, 2017

About the Artist:

Tamara Deedman (she/her) is an artist, educator, and cultural worker based in Treaty 6 territory (Edmonton, Alberta). She received her Bachelor of Fine Arts from the Nova Scotia Art and Design University, and is currently completing her Master of Fine Arts from the University of Alberta. Through print-media, installation, and textiles her work explores the narratives, identities, and grief that are ingrained in our material worlds through inherited objects. Outside of her studio practice, Deedman embeds herself in community work/care through many non-profits and artist run centres and is an advocate for creating safe and accessible spaces for communities who are looking to find wellness through the act of making.

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Winter 2025 Exhibitions Listings

January 7-25, 2025

January 7-February 8, 2025

• Second Floor:
  Alcuin Society Book Design Awards
  

February 4-8 2025 (International Week Event)

• First Gallery:
  Narges Noori

Feb 25-March 15, 2025

• Main Floor:
  Tamara Deedman, MFA Thesis Printmaking

March 25 - April 5, 2025

• BDes Grad Show

April 15 - 26 2025

• BFA Grad Show