"Sah!”: A Tahltan Contemporary Art Show by Waylon Asp!

Event Description

“Sah!” — the solo exhibition debut of Tahltan artist Waylon Asp will be on display at the @ministryofcasualliving — FREE entry (or by donation) and open to the public starting May 29th 2025!! The gallery, located at 750 Fairfield Road, will be open Thursdays from 5-8pm and Saturdays from 1-4 until June 14th. Paintings, illustrations, and more will be for sale.

The Welcome Reception will take place on May 29th at 5pm until 8.

The MoCL window gallery is wheelchair accessible through the East Entrance.

"Waylon Asp is a Tahltan and Ukrainian Jewish multidisciplinary artist working in illustration, painting, animation and sculpture. His practice is narrative activism via Indigenous fantasy, taking his Tahltan heritage and applying its foundational visual and linguistic traditions to the worlds of popular culture and cartoons that raised him. As a neurodiverse person, Asp’s understanding of himself and the world around him has been especially shaped by the cultural magnitude of mass-produced, animated and illustrated entertainment media. He seeks to examine the intersections of cultural and popular myth, legend, and the transmission of a collective social consciousness while furthering his decolonial and reconstructive work as a Tahltan artist."

Message from the artist:

"Waylon Asp ushyē! Ch’iyone esta tse’i. Didene ja’sini. I make artwork for the same reason I fight, the same reason I breathe, eat and sleep. It’s all I know and all I need. “Sah!” is a Tāłtān word meaning “awesome!” or “sick!” I can think of no more appropriate expression to reflect the reaction I hope to elicit with my numerous paintings, drawings, and other artifacts of my unfettered ideation. Mēduh for looking, liking, letting your imagination run decolonized and free!"