Exhibition: Edge Effects at The Marianne and Edward Gibson Art Museum, Simon Fraser University Burnaby, BC Dates: September 20, 2025, to February 15, 2026 Artists: Lorna Brown, Justine A. Chambers, Patrick Cruz, Lucien Durey, Sameer Farooq, Jared Stanley, Elisa Ferrari, Germaine Koh, Helena Krobath, Liz Magor, Cindy Mochizuki, Pietro Sammarco, Liz Toohey-Wiese, Debra Sparrow, Jin-me Yoon, curated by Kimberly Phillips with assistance from Susanna Browne, Rachel Maddock, and Joshua Segun-Lean Information: The fifteen artists whose works are drawn together to celebrate the Gibson’s inauguration consider edges in compelling ways
Information: From the Gibson: Lucien Durey’s boundary-straddling artistic practice engages with found objects, sounds, and places. Together these offer the material for artworks that take a variety of forms—often entwined together—including sculpture, photography, song, and performance. For Edge Effects, Durey creates new work that reconsiders an act of everyday (and often gendered) labour: washing the dishes. He stretches the scale of the implements so large that handling the plates becomes an activity of almost athletic proportions, best completed with the aid of others. A three-part vocal composition accompanies the sculpture. Recorded in the artist’s backyard in an unwitnessed performance, Dishwashing Hymn was sung a capella by Durey and his friends while clothed in garments hand-sewn from found linens, following the shared enjoyment of an exquisitely prepared smörgåstårta, or Swedish sandwich cake. Together these elements imbue an unremarkable task with expressions of joy and solemnity to become a disarmingly tender homage to the daily acts that define and describe community and care
Images: Installation and detail views of Edge Effects, The Marianne and Edward Gibson Art Museum, 2025 Dish Rack with Plates, Towel, Rag and Brush, 2025, powder-coated steel, thermoplastic, stoneware, found textiles, found brush. Fabricators: Toby Schillinger, Stephen Quissy Dishwashing Hymn with Nasturtiums, 2025, inkjet print Jeremy, Mark and Hatim Dressed in Bedsheets and Curtains, 2025, lightjet print Layla Cake with Watermelon Radishes, Nasturtiums and Yellow Beets, 2025, archival inkjet print Layla Cake with Watermelon Radishes, Nasturtiums and Yellow Beets, Cut View, 2025, archival inkjet print Other image credits: Photo documentation by Blaine Campbell Lucien Durey, Hatim Hanafi, Jeremy O’Neill and Mark Wolf perform Dishwashing Hymn at the Gibson, November 9, 2025
