September 30 – October 16
Hajj: The Journey Through Art الحج :الفن في رحاب الرحلة (Culture Days)
Richmond Art Gallery
7700 Minoru Gate
A groundbreaking exhibition – Hajj: The Journey Through Art By MACF (A museum Foundation) along with collaborators from their ongoing Cross-Cultural Art projects is on. MACF collective’s interest is in working with transnational artistic and cultural networks of exchange at the scale of the local & global. In this latest body of work & exhibition the curators and their collaborators stage dialogues between the Aboriginal handmade & the Muslim hand crafted works of art, through a series of visual, conceptual/sculptural gestures that are inspired by the labor that artisans and craftsmen undertake to transform material to become artistic yet spiritual, symbolic and iconic inspirations. Hajj exhibition features collaborative gestures undertaken in the last year by MACF which was founded by Islamic art Curator B.Hammoud. He’s working toward establishing a museum in Vancouver city. The exchange has met since fall of 2021 to begin forming a self-organized artisan vendor cooperative to create cross-cultural art installations.
Website: https://culturedays.ca/en/events/7f726417-24db-494b-bad1-90aa1c77e1b2