Media Critique in the Age of Gillray
In the late 1790s, British Prime Minister William Pitt created a crisis of representation when he pressured the British Parliament to relieve the Bank of England from its obligations to convert paper notes into coin. Paper quickly became associated with a form of limitless reproduction that threatened to dematerialize solid bodies and replace them with […]
Anni Albers: Camino Real
Essay by T’ai Smith in Anni Albers, Anni Albers: Camino Real. New York: David Zwirner Books, 2020 Book information: The first in-depth study of a monumental wall hanging—rediscovered after many years—by renowned Bauhaus artist Anni Albers, who was influential in elevating textiles from craft to fine art. Albers was influential in elevating textiles from craft to fine […]
The Unknown Remains
The Unknown Remains, Touchstones Nelson Museum of Art and History, Nelson, BC. Aug. 24 – Nov. 2, 2019. It was a large exhibition and explored migration issues. The show occupied two gallery spaces (2000sq.ft) at the museum and brought such a pertinent historical topic up to today. Through the unveiling of hidden historical narratives, the […]
The Sioux Project
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The State of the Situation
Featuring artist Althea Thauberger, and authors Jan-Erik Lundström, Melanie O’Brien, Kimberly Phillips, Zarmeene Shah, in partnership with the Contemporary Art Gallery, Southern Alberta Art Gallery, and Art Gallery of Nova Scotia. For more information: https://shop-at-saag.myshopify.com/products/preorder-althea-thauberger-the-state-of-the-situation
Experimental Self-Portraits in Early French Photography
This book explores a range of experimental self-portraits made in France between 1840 and 1870, including remarkable images by Hippolyte Bayard, Nadar, Duchenne de Boulogne, and Countess de Castiglione. Adapting photography for different social purposes, each of these pioneers showcased their own body as a living artifact and iconic attraction. Jillian Lerner considers performative portraits […]
Image Bank
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Woven Work From Near Here
Emily Hermant and T’ai Smith, Woven Work from Near Here. Vancouver, BC: grunt gallery, 2018 Inspired by traditional weaving practices—including Indigenous methods for weaving blankets and baskets alongside structures and patterns that have come from elsewhere—the exhibition presents recent experiments by artists who live and work near here. Juxtaposing materials and methods, the works in […]
Fringing the Cube
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An Exhibition Never Opened
Gu Xiong: Migrations (https://ahva.ubc.ca/publications/guxiong-migrations/) was originally produced to accompany a forty-five-year retrospective organized by the Galaxy Museum of Contemporary Art (Chongqing, China, June 10–August 11, 2017) that was shut down before it officially opened and the catalogues were seized. The publication An Exhibition Never Opened documents these events and includes new writings. For more information: […]