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Climates of Health: The Weather Inside Us

September 8 - October 3, 2026

Opening Night Events: Tuesday September 8, 2026 
  • Live Performance of:
    Becoming Unreal by Chloë Lum & Yannick Desranleau
    Bleviss Laboratory Theatre: Fine Arts Building, FAB 1-63
    Doors open at 6 p.m.

  • 7 - 9 p.m. Exhibition Reception
    Fine Arts Building (FAB) Gallery: FAB 1-01

    RSVP for Opening Night Events here

Symposium Events: September 8 & 9, 2026

About the show:

Climates of Health: The Weather Inside Us explores the connections between human well-being and our changing environment through the lens of the One Health framework. This exhibition uses creative practice and cross-cultural dialogue to confront urgent issues of climate anxiety, health equity, and sustainability. Bringing together the work of 13 artists and five academic researchers and collaborators over a two-year period, this project asks how visual arts can inspire action and foster long-term interdisciplinary resilience in the face of pressing environmental change.

Featuring:
  • Sean Caulfield & Marilène Oliver
  • April Dean
  • Jonathan S. Green
  • Chloë Lum & Yannick Desranleau
  • Yoonmi Nam
  • Koichi Yamamoto
  • Ryuta Endo
  • Hisaharu Motoda
  • Hiroaki Oishi
  • Toshiya Takahama
  • Motohiro Tomii
With collaboration & research by:

Anne Hicks, Evan Davies, Aman Ullah, Candace Ramjohn, and Joan Greer

This exhibition and symposium are made possible through the support of:

Upcoming Exhibition

What I Made When My People Were Dying

Aynaz Raoufian and Mona Sahi | MFA Intermedia 
October 13 - 24, 2026

Opening Reception: Thursday, October 15, 7 - 9 p.m.
(U of A faculty, staff, students and invited guests)

Artists' Statements

Aynaz Raoufian

What I Made When My People Were Dying "explores memory, grief, and the ways our bodies and relationships hold experiences of illness. Nothing is more inclusive for humans on earth than loss; only its forms and intensity are different, while the imposition of death is something that is not equally shared. Drawing from the artist’s experience of caring for her sister with cancer, the works bring together durational performance, installation, sculpture, and interactive media to explore individual and collective experiences of care, memory, and survival. Visitors are invited to reflect on their own experiences and consider how personal histories connect to wider social and political realities." 

Aynaz Raoufian is an interdisciplinary artist, MFA student in Intermedia, and PhD student in Medicine at the University of Alberta. Her practice emerges from her experience caring for her sister during cancer treatment. Her work examines care, memory, and the emotional weight that loss places on both the body and memory. Working across video, wearable sculptures, durational performances, and participatory installations, she explores how caring for another person reshapes identity and how multilingual expression complicates, and sometimes protects, the act of remembering. Through interactive works and installations that create spaces for collective reflection, she considers the body as a site of accumulation, where stories, emotions, and traces of care reside. 

Mona Sahi

"This exhibition explores resistance, violence, and the experience of living with political uncertainty. Drawing on my experiences growing up in Iran and living abroad, I use materials to reflect on what is remembered, hidden, destroyed, and made visible. The works invite viewers to encounter these reflections through physical and sensory situations that can be unsettling, fragile, or difficult to ignore. Together, they ask us to consider how the suffering of others becomes visible to us, and what responsibility we have when we choose to look or look away."

Mona Sahi is an interdisciplinary artist and MFA student in Intermedia at the University of Alberta. She works across sculpture, installation, performance, sound, and video, with a practice rooted in material experimentation. She explores how objects, spaces, and sensory experiences can carry personal and collective histories. Drawing from her experiences growing up in Iran and living abroad, she is interested in the relationship between material, memory, place, and lived experience.

2026-2027 Exhibitions

FALL 2026
September 8 - October 3, 2026

Climates of Health: The Weather Inside Us
An International group exhibition with artworks by Sean Caulfield & Marilène Oliver, April Dean, Jonathan S. Green, Chloë Lum & Yannick Desranleau, Yoonmi Nam, Koichi Yamamoto, Ryuta Endo, Hisaharu Motoda, Hiroaki Oishi, Toshiya Takahama, Motohiro Tomii | With collaboration & research by Anne Hicks, Evan Davies, Aman Ullah, Candace Ramjohn & Joan Greer

October 13-24, 2026

What I Made When My People Were Dying
Aynaz Raofian and Mona Sahi | MFA Intermedia
Reception: Thurs. Oct. 15

November 3-21, 2026

MFA Thesis Exhibitions
Maria Rosatti & Samantha McLeish
Reception: Thurs. Nov. 5

December 1-19, 2026

MFA Thesis Exhibitions
Kate Bang & Carla Taylor
Reception: Thurs Dec 03

Visiting FAB Gallery

FAB Gallery Hours:
  • Tuesday - Friday | 11a.m. - 5 p.m.
  • Saturday | 12-3 p.m.
  • Sunday & Monday | closed
Accessibility

FAB Gallery's second floor is now accessible via a barrier free entrance and ramp from the FAB/HUB pedway. Visitors should proceed to the gallery main entrance of FAB 1-01 first. Gallery staff will be pleased to provide second floor access upon request.

FAB Gallery Location:

1-1 Fine Arts Building
University of Alberta
112 Street and 89 Avenue