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Contemporary Art Gallery

555 Nelson Street
Vancouver, Canada
Open from Tuesday to
Sunday 12 pm → 6 pm

Admission always free
ArchiveEvent
4 Jun 22·12:00 PM

In Conversation

Abbas Akhavan with Kim Nguyen and Matthew Hyland

A photo of the back of a wooden museum bench. In the background sits a low table of the same material. Behind these objects, the wall is draped in a printed gray fabric, alongside a doorway rendered in green-screen paint.

Abbas Akhavan, cast for a folly (installation detail), 2019, CCA Wattis Institute, San Francisco. Photo: Johnna Arnold. Courtesy of Catriona Jeffries, Vancouver.

Join us for a talk in the gallery between Abbas Akhavan and curators Kim Nguyen and Matthew Hyland on the occasion of Akhavan’s exhibition cast for a folly.

No advance registration required for this event.

ASL interpretation

ASL interpretation is available on request. Requests can be accommodated up to 5 days in advance. Please contact learning@cagvancouver.org to book or for more information.