MASTHEAD

Editors-in-Chief: Bridget Ferguson, Irene Wang

Graphic Designer: Greg Gibson

Photographer: Avery Frost

Editors: Emily Chu, Axelle Dequatre, Anling Dunn, David Grace, Ella Hughes, Hana Kovar, Felix Rowe, Jenykha Sangha

Contributing Artists: Téa Berretta, Sofia Borg

Contributing Writers: Sarah-Lune Bergeron, Illimani Mendoza-Mayrs, Sarah Wong, Alicia Laing


ARTICLES

Johann Moritz Rugendas, La Siesta, 1850. Oil on canvas, 20.5 x 26.8 in. São Paulo, Itaú Bank Collection © João L. Musa / Itaú Cultural.

Tropicality and the humboldtian gaze: European Exceptionalism in the Works of Johann Moritz Rugendas

Sarah-Lune Bergeron

 

Justine Kurland, Kung Fu Fighters, 1999. Courtesy of the artist.

EMBODYING TEENAGE GIRLHOOD: The Phenomenology of Girl pictures

Illimani Mendoza-Mayrs

 

Natalie Purschwitz’s outfit for Days 7 and 8 of The Makeshift Project, 2009. Courtesy of the artist.

Dressing the Embodied Subject in Natalie Purschwitz’s The Makeshift Project and the Untidy Politics of Craft

Sarah Wong

 

James Albers, silly boy, you’ve been daydreaming again (detail), 2023. Float-mounted 36 x 24 in. inkjet print by Simone Chnarakis, sheer curtain, and curtain rod. Installation photo © Dennis Ha. Reproduced with permission of the artists.

REORIENTATION THROUGH DISORIENTATION

Alicia Laing


ARTIST PROFILES

Téa Berretta, My Big Bouquet, 2024. Mixed media, 25 x 25 in. each, with

96 in. stem. Artist photo.

Téa berretta: Beyond Passivity

Hana Kovar

 

Sofia Borg: The impermanence of memory

Felix Rowe


REVIEWS

Brock Hall Art Gallery, ca. 1960. UBC Archives Photograph Collection, UBC 1.1/11094. Reproduced with permission.

OURS TO LOSE: Lessons from the Eighty-Year History of the AMS Permanent Collection and the Hatch Art Gallery

David Grace

 

Woven Histories: Textiles and Modern abstraction, National Gallery of Canada

Axelle Dequatre


The Undergraduate Journal of Art History & Visual Culture (UJAH) is a free student journal published by the Department of Art History, Visual Art and Theory and the Art History Students’ Association at the University of British Columbia. All material is copyright © 2025 UJAH, authors. All inquiries can be emailed to ubc.ujah@gmail.com.

UJAH gratefully acknowledges the financial support of the UBC Art History Students’ Association and the UBC Arts Undergraduate Society, as well as the editorial and financial support of the Department of Art History, Visual Art and Theory at the University of British Columbia.

UJAH’s editorial team would like to acknowledge that we work and learn on the traditional, ancestral, and unceded territory of the Musqueam people.

Issue 16, 2025. Published since 2009. Cover design by Greg Gibson.