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Vancouver Now! Emily Hermant

August 7–November 22, 2026

A composite image of views of a weaving work by Emily Hermant seen from the front, on the left, and from the back, on the right. The weaving, which has a fringe on the front, evokes a landscape made up of rows of colour. From top to bottom, we see yellow, white, greens, dark blue, and then blues. At the centre, we see some additional objects incorporated. The back view shows the back of the weaving on white, with lines from the colours on the front.

Emily Hermant, Talk Through Me, 2024, collected and folded empty ethernet cable jackets in mesh; heat shrink plastic caps; metal bar, Courtesy of the Artist and Monte Clark Gallery

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Emily Hermant is the inaugural artist in our new Vancouver Now! exhibition series, highlighting artists whose work is both timely and closely tied to this city.

Since arriving in Vancouver in 2016, Hermant has steadily built a reputation as an artist to watch. The exhibition will highlight her weavings, which are laboriously crafted from the wires and data cables of the technologies that envelop us, thoughtfully shifting the speed and focus of our attention. They invite viewers to move from the frenetic virtual experiences that increasingly characterize our daily lives to an unhurried and surprisingly aesthetically satisfying consideration of the material basis of that simulated world.

Although the works are beautiful in reproduction, their full effect can be experienced only in person. As they are approached, each work, which initially appears like an abstract or highly stylized painting or textile, transforms to reveal its materiality as a structure of coloured, insulated wires and data cables.

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Organized by the Vancouver Art Gallery and curated by Richard Hill, Smith Jarislowsky Senior Curator of Canadian Art
  • Installation view of 3 artworks by Emily Hermant in the exhibition Vancouver Now! On the left, a blurred woman also stands and looks at a blue and white work that looks like a hanging tapestry.

    Installation view of Vancouver Now! Emily Hermant, exhibition at the Vancouver Art Gallery, August 7 to November 22, 2026, Photo: Vancouver Art Gallery

  • A photographic detail of an artwork by Emily Hermant made up of colourful telecommunication wires.

    Emily Hermant, Billow, 2020–21 (detail), collected and stripped telecommunications wires, steel, gypsum, Collection of Renata Li and Jamie Christianson, Photo: Vancouver Art Gallery

  • Installation view of 4 artworks by Emily Hermant in the exhibition Vancouver Now!. At the centre of the image, a couple, a man and a woman, look at the back of an hanging, tapestry-like work.

    Installation view of Vancouver Now! Emily Hermant, exhibition at the Vancouver Art Gallery, August 7 to November 22, 2026, Photo: Vancouver Art Gallery

Publication

Cover of a booklet produced to accompany the Vancouver Now! Emily Hermant exhibition. The cover is blue with the text "Emily Hermant" left aligned in the top left. Below is a photograph detail of one of Emily Hermant's hanging artworks in yellow, white, green, black and blue stripes that looks like a tapestry, but is actually made up of cables.

Emily Hermant

Published by the Vancouver Art Gallery

Contributors: Richard Hill

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