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On April 2nd, 2026 at 7:00PM, Access Gallery will be hosting the opening reception of its untitled Spring Exhibition. Curated by Farah Elafifi, the exhibition features the work of local artists Kyla Dooley, Tajiliya & Marjan Jamal, Bobby Malone, and Deepali Raiththa. The exhibition explores themes of relationality and the reification of resistance. It asks: What does the embodiment of resistance look like? 

Access Gallery invites you to embody resistance, and to witness the first ever live performance of Mergence by Deepali Raiththa. Join us for this unique opening on April 2nd at 6pm.

Kyla Dooley (BFA) is an artist known for her conceptually-motivated work playfully moving through sculpture, installation, programming, video, and all the interesting places in between. Her work has been shown in numerous exhibitions across Canada and she is the recipient of multiple grants from the BC Arts Council. She has upcoming shows at Access Gallery (Vancouver, BC), and The Ammerman Center for Arts and Technology (New London, CT). Kyla lives and works on the xʷməθkʷəy̓əm (Musqueam), Sḵwx̱wú7mesh Úxwumixw (Squamish) and səl̓ilw̓ətaʔɬ (Tsleil-Waututh) peoples (Vancouver, BC).

Tajliya and Marjan Jamal are artists living in Vancouver on the unceded territories of the Squamish, Musqueam, and Tsleil-Waututh nations. With practices based in printmaking and ceramics respectively, the two siblings share an interest in labour-intensive mediums and experimental approaches to technical processes. Their collaborative work aims to garner curiosity, nostalgia, and whimsy in participants/audience, leading to installation pieces with interactive or time-based elements, and the interplay of pattern and form.

Bobby Malone is an artist from Baltimore who currently studies at Simon Fraser University.  

Deepali Raiththa is an interdisciplinary artist whose practice spans performance, installation, video, and multimedia. She studied at the Sir JJ School of Art in Mumbai, completed a Post-Baccalaureate in Visual Art at the San Francisco Art Institute, and received her MFA from Emily Carr University of Art and Design in Vancouver, Canada. Her work explores themes of liminality, embodiment, and unseen dimensions of experience. Raiththa has exhibited and performed in the United States and India and was a speaker at TEDxEmilyCarr in 2020.

Farah ElAfifi is an Egyptian multidisciplinary artist and emerging curator on the unceded territories of the xʷməθkʷəy̓əm (Musqueam), Sḵwx̱wú7mesh Úxwumixw (Squamish) and səl̓ilw̓ətaʔɬ (Tsleil-Waututh) peoples. Her work centres resistance, community, and movement-building. Farah hopes her work provides a moment to reflect on the ongoing global struggle for liberation, the lessons we learn from it, and the strength we create in community.