Make Art Like Me

Deluge Contemporary Gallery

September 6 - October 5, 2024
Victoria, BC

Arising indirectly but inarguably from her seminal 2000 Rogue Art/Deluge exhibition Everything I Own Is In This Room (aka The Possibility of Overcoming Negative Thought) Victoria-based polymath Sonja Ahlers’ Make Art Like Me allows us entrée into a life/work that is multivalent, intertwined and recombinant, comprising words, images, objects and actions. These two process-based installations, separated by almost a quarter century, several incarnations, provinces (and one territory) act as shapeshifting bookends to Ahlers’ 2023 survey Classification Crisis. Make Art Like Me is an immersive environment in the Deluge space with the artist herself creating epilogues and forwards to her past and future works, independent of institutional oversight or curatorial interference.

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Classification Crisis (2023)