September 9 – November 5
Exhibition: Sonja Ahlers – Classification Crisis
Richmond Art Gallery
7700 Minoru Gate
Artist and Curator Talk & Tour: Sept 2, 2pm-3pm
Opening Reception: Sept 2, 3pm-5pm
For thirty years, Victoria-based artist Sonja Ahlers has been making books in her distinct visual idiom that is equal parts collage and poetry. Classification Crisis, a major survey of her career, emerged from Ahlers’s project of the last half-decade to prepare her archive. The exhibition includes her Riot Grrrl zines of the nineties, one-of-a-kind chapbooks spanning thirty years, a decade of unseen work after she “quit art” in the wake of the Vancouver art boom, and other artworks and ephemera from a career of collecting images and scraps of language.
Website: https://www.richmondartgallery.org/classification-crisis