Gabi Dao

Gabi Dao is an artist and former co-organizer at Duplex, a DIY project space + studio collective based on the unceded territories of the xʷməθkwəy̓əm (Musqueam), Skwxwú7mesh (Squamish), and Səl̓ílwətaʔ/Selilwitulh (Tsleil-Waututh) Nations. Her practice insists on counter-memory, intimacy, hyphenation, multiple truths and blurred temporalities. Often this looks-sounds-feels like sculpture, installation, moving image and sound and begins with interests in “patchwork” conceptions of time and materiality, tracing histories of the everyday through themes of globalization, consumption, belief and belonging. Her work has been included in exhibitions in Ontario at The National Gallery of Canada and Pleasure Dome, in British Colombia at Unit 17, The Vancouver Art Gallery, Artspeak, and Burnaby Art Gallery, in Manitoba at Blinkers, as well the Kamias Triennial in the Philippines, IFFR in The Netherlands and Le Studio in Austria.