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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)
View the Raoufian pdf E-vite | View the Sahi pdf E-vite
Performances
Aynaz Raoufian, MFA Thesis | Performance FAB Gallery- Mal-memory is a two-year durational work tracing how the artist's memory has functioned since the loss of her sister, an act of preserving what remains, by writing. These three-hour performances are the final attempt to bring her memories back through others, in the hope that they might find their own along the way.
- Wednesday, October 21 | 1 - 4:30 p.m. & Saturday, October 24 | 12 - 3 p.m.
- LET’S BREAK THEM ALL | Growing up under a dictatorship, surrounded by rules, expectations, and values imposed on us, I learned that some things are meant to be questioned and sometimes, broken. I’m sure each of us has experienced this differently, depending on where and how we grew up.
- Join Mona Sahi for a durational performance on Wednesday, October 21 | 1 - 4:30 p.m. on the second floor of FAB Gallery. Come, take part, and share your experience. I invite you to break something with me.
- HOW DARK IT GETS WHEN WE COUNT IT TOGETHER | A durational performance and act of remembrance that refuses to let people’s lives be reduced to numbers. Through the repetitive act of counting, we will make these numbers visible, giving time and physical presence to the lives they represent.
- Join Mona Sahi on Saturday, October 24 | 12 - 3 p.m. Come and count with me.
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