Vulnerable Pleasures, a satellite art exhibition at LaConference 2025

Exhibition Hours:

Friday October 17, 3 – 10pm

Saturday October 18, 12 – 6pm

With a special presentation by Carol Owens, Friday October 17 at 8:30pm

In parallel with the LaConference on Feminine Desire, 12 clinical psychoanalysts were each given one artwork to analyze without knowing who the artist was. Their written responses are the basis of the exhibition, Vulnerable Pleasures. Drawing on Anne Dufourmantelle and Mari Ruti’s insistence that risk, tenderness, and vulnerability are conditions of subjectivity, the exhibition reimagines analysis as a practice of openness rather than mastery. Here, artworks appear less as objects to master than as enigmatic subjects whose desires unsettle, exceed, and invite us. Curated by Dan Starling.

Artists + Analysts

Hana Amani + Hilda Fernandez / Tiffany Law + Erik Larson / Damla Tamer + Sharon Green / Jacob Dyrenforth + Dan Collins / Eknoor Matharoo + Mandana Mansouri / Mahsa Farsi + Marco Antonio Coutinho / Alejandra Morales Garza + Mariana Hernández Urías / Megan Hepburn + Juan Luis de la Mora / Christine D’Onofrio + Cindy Zeiher / Saskia Jetten + Rolf Flor / Jonathan Alfaro + Manuel Outón / Rosamunde Bordo + Francine Danniau

*Image by Alejandra Morales Garza

A poverty that makes us all cruel (detail)

2024, Oil on canvas

75 x 180 cm / 29.5” x 70”

Location: 

Gallery Gachet

9 W Hastings St

Vancouver BC V6B 1G5