Exhibitions

Material Journeys

January 25 - May 3, 2026

Sukaina Kubba: Turn Me Into a Flower, 2024, Dundee Contemporary Arts (DCA). Installation view, Photo by Ruth Clark.

Enter the intimate and immersive worlds of three Canadian artists whose engagements with textile retrace and chart pathways home and elsewhere

Material Journeys brings together the work of three artists who engage with textiles as a medium for the discovery, recovery and creation of culture, history and spirit. Marisa Gallemit, Zoe Kreye and Sukaina Kubba’s diverse engagements with materials reveal the importance of embodiment, process and presence as vehicles for investigating ancestry, diaspora and selfhood. Their work creates immersive environments that evoke memories, inspire curiosity and cultivate intimacy. Gallemit, Kreye and Kubba invite us to reconsider how our own material journeys can help us understand new experiences and find home wherever we are.

Marisa Gallemit is a Canadian-born Filipina sculptor and performance artist who deconstructs and reconstructs found and discarded objects to create third culture artifacts. Gallemit’s practice is ignited by circumstance, collaboration and other opportunities for discovery and storytelling. Her practice braids together her evolving relationship to migration, acculturation, ritual and service to craft sculptural objects that evocatively bear the residue of displacement.

Zoe Kreye is a Vancouver-based artist working in installation, performance and social practice. Kreye’s work visualizes her investment in politicized somatics and energetic attunement. Activating her work through collaborative performance, Kreye invites viewers to participate in rituals of embodiment. Crafting aesthetic experience in the spirit of connection and care, Kreye’s work cultivates opportunities for unlearning, internal knowing and transformation.

Sukaina Kubba, a Toronto-based Iraqi artist, explores rugs and textiles as traveling objects that carry cultural history and create an atmosphere of home wherever they are unfurled. Kubba embarks on intimate material engagements with these rugs by reproducing them as sculptural drawings. Favouring industrial and packaging materials, Kubba deploys iterative and patient processes that retrace rugs and textiles in mediums ranging from 3D filament to laser etching to printmaking.