Artist Talk | Michelle Sound

April 11, 2026
2:00—3:00pm

Ceremonial / Art (within Macaulay + Co. Gallery)
3712 W 10th Ave, Vancouver
Admission is FREE, registration required. Register here

Artist Michelle Sound will lead a talk and tour of her new exhibition at Ceremonial / Art. The event will include a discussion of her recent practice, as well as her commissioned project Wherever You Are, created for the 2026 edition of the Capture Photography Festival.

Co-presented by Capture Photography Festival and Ceremonial / Art, the tour offers an opportunity to engage directly with the exhibition through the artist’s perspective.

Attendees should note that the event will primarily involve standing and moving through the exhibition space. Limited seating can be arranged for accessibility needs; those requiring accommodations are encouraged to contact the organizers in advance.

Michelle Sound is a Cree and Métis artist, educator, and mother, and a member of Wapsewsipi/Swan River First Nation in Northern Alberta. Her multidisciplinary practice spans photography, textiles, painting, and Indigenous material practices. She was born and raised on the unceded and ancestral territories of the xʷməθkwəy̓əm (Musqueam), Skwxwú7mesh (Squamish), and Səl̓ílwətaʔ/Selilwitulh (Tsleil-Waututh) Nations.

Sound holds a Bachelor of Fine Arts from Simon Fraser University School for the Contemporary Arts and a Master of Applied Arts from Emily Carr University of Art + Design.

Exhibition Tour | Embodied Conversations: The Lillian and Billy Mauer Collection with Gonzalo Reyes Rodriguez

April 12, 2026
1:00—2:00pm

Griffin Art Projects
1174 Welch Street, North Vancouver
Admission is FREE, no registration required.

Join Vancouver-based photographer and film/video artist Gonzalo Reyes Rodriguez for a special tour of Embodied Conversations: The Lillian and Billy Mauer Collection. The Mauer collection, shaped by a sustained interest in the relationship between art and society, offers timely insights into how contemporary photography reflects the complexities of 20th- and 21st-century life.

During the tour, Reyes Rodriguez will highlight works by artists including Nan Goldin, Cindy Sherman, Shirin Neshat, Francis Stark, and André Kertész. Focusing on themes such as portraiture, identity, staging, and the politics of representation, the tour will connect individual practices to broader conceptual strategies within the exhibition. It will frame the collection as an ongoing exploration of how artworks construct subjectivity and shape our understanding of the social world.

Gonzalo Reyes Rodriguez works with photography and film/video to examine the temporal ambiguity of our experiences of images. His work critically engages with the ways in which media such as photography and cinema, shape our collective memory and historical consciousness. Recent solo presentations include David Peter Francis, New York City (2024); Center for Artistic and Cultural Practices, Winnipeg (2021); and Terremoto/La Postal, Mexico City (2019). His work has been a part of group exhibitions, most recently, Luhring Augustine, New York City (2024); National Gallery of Canada, Ottawa (2023), and the Centre for Contemporary Art, Glasgow (2022). In 2023 he was awarded the New Generation Photography Award by the National Gallery of Canada. His work has been featured in Aperture, Artforum, Border Crossings, the New York Times, and is in the permanent collections of the Art Institute of Chicago, and the Whitney Museum of American Art among others. He lives and works in Vancouver where he is an Assistant Professor of Photography at Emily Carr University of Art + Design. He is represented by David Peter Francis, NYC.