Name: Artist Talk with Hân Phạm and Luis Andrés Serrano
Start: 2025-08-14T18:00:00-07:00
Location: Morris and Helen Belkin Art Gallery

$Artist Talk with H\u00e2n Ph\u1ea1m and Luis Andr\u00e9s Serrano$

Join us outside the Belkin in front of the Outdoor Screen for an artist talk by Hân Phạm and Luis Andrés Serrano, centred around their respective films, Once Upon a Time (2020) and Homebody (2024), part of the film program On Home and Haunting. The conversation will be moderated by curator Fegor Obuwoma. The artists' experimental film practices will be explored in regard to how they work between memory and video, translating lived experience and history into compelling visual work. In relation to the archive, the discussion will also touch on their works' connection to the exhibition theme of home and haunting.

Curated by Ogheneofegor (Fegor) Obuwoma, On Home and Haunting is a film program on the Belkin outdoor screen that runs from August 11 to September 3 between 9 am and 9 pm. On Home and Haunting deals with the uncertainty of memory as a mode by which the artists conceive and construct their films. Using the language of “hauntology” (which deals with the ways social, cultural and political issues from the past haunt the present) and how it connects us to the unresolved state of capitalist violence across time and embedded into history, this program highlights three artists working within this realm of the indelible: Hân Phạm, Adam Garnet Jones and Luis Andrés Serrano. Aesthetically, the works of these artists are ghostly; they inhabit places of the past, only possible from the present. Film is a medium favourable for these hauntings. Formally, it allows that which is abstract and ambiguous to take shape in tangible ways and in many cases; a haunting can be political. “A Glossary of Hauntings” by Eve Tuck and C. Ree defines haunting as “the relentless remembering and reminding that will not be appeased by settler society’s assurances of innocence and reconciliation.” This definition asks us to expand our formal understanding of hauntings and what they tell us about life lived and the histories we emerge from.

https://belkin.ubc.ca/events/artist-talk-han-pham-and-luis-andres-serrano/
IMAGE (ABOVE): HÂN PHẠM, ONCE UPON A TIME (STILL), 2020. COURTESY OF THE ARTIST.