FLEET: Edmonds

Edmonds Park, Intersection of Humphries Rd and Rosewood Ave

February 24 - April 7, 2025

Open House and Artist Talk: March 30th, 2025 at 1 PM:

Craft Nights: Tuesday March 4th and Tuesday March 18th, 6 to 9 PM

We are excited to welcome Eilidh Keegan-Henry and Bahar Vaghari Moghaddam to FLEET: Edmonds! Keegan-Henry and Moghaddam will be at the FLEET from  February 24-April 7, 2025. During this period they will work on their project Parallel Lines. 

Parallel Lines will be a set of handmade destination rollers, inspired by those used in interurban trams that operated here through the 1900s. These rollers will be a hand-sewn textile project referencing the flows of people through transit lines. Parallel Lines will use the rollers to re-contextualize the paths of people and resources at both global and historical scales, as they relate to the specific context of Edmonds.

Transportation access and availability played a key role in shaping the Edmonds neighbourhood, and includes parallels between the socio-economic impacts of the development of the historical electric tramway system, and the modern Skytrain network. Keegan-Henry and Moghaddam are interested in investigating the impacts of the availability of transportation on the distribution and organization of Edmonds as a community.

Join us for an artist talk and open house with Keegan-Henry and Moghaddam on Sunday, March 30th at 1 PM. 

Eilidh Keegan-Henry is an interdisciplinary, queer, disabled, artist living and working on the unceded territories of the Kwikwetlem nation. Her work explores labour and materiality, often using found or recycled materials and investigating the stories they hold. Research and craft are central to her process, which often focuses on traditional manufacturing techniques. The physical record of human labour through handicraft is a commonly repeated motif.

Bahar Vaghari Moghaddam (she/her, they/them) is an artist based on hənqəminəm and Sḵwxwú7mesh territory (Burnaby), and a long-time resident of the Edmonds neighborhood. She’s interested in the actual and conceptual marks left behind by human touch. Taking a research-based approach to make sense of these patterns makes her approach multidisciplinary. They find pleasure in working with textures such as fiber, clay, and charcoal as these materials concern tactility, mark, and texture. Her experience in working with archives in the lower mainland has her asking how bodies and artworks are organized here historically and what forces are behind it. This archival experience has inspired her to explore film photography and analog media types.

Image (above): Photo of Bahar Vaghari Moghaddam (left) and Eilidh Keegan-Henry (right), photo by Bahar Vaghari Moghaddam.