BEGIN:VCALENDAR VERSION:2.0 PRODID:-//Department of Art History, Visual Art & Theory//NONSGML Events//EN CALSCALE:GREGORIAN X-ORIGINAL-URL:https://ahva.ubc.ca/events/event/ X-WR-CALDESC:Department of Art History, Visual Art & Theory - Events BEGIN:VEVENT UID:20211013T0232Z-1634092327.396-EO-21551-37@10.19.146.14 STATUS:CONFIRMED DTSTAMP:20260718T001140Z CREATED:20161103T223326Z LAST-MODIFIED:20210816T192005Z DTSTART;TZID=America/Vancouver:20070628T200000 DTEND;TZID=America/Vancouver:20070628T220000 SUMMARY: Between You and the Thing Itself DESCRIPTION: June 29 – August 4\, 2007\, open: Thursday June 28\, 8pm With works by Robert Arndt\, Raymond Boisjoly\, Matthew Booth\, Heidi Johansen\, Kyla Mallett\, and Jeremy Todd\, curated by Dan Starling. “Between You and the Thing Itself” presents the work of six artists from Vancouver working with photography. This exhibition was organized in a spontaneous […] X-ALT-DESC;FMTTYPE=text/html:

June 29 – August 4\, 2007\,
o pen: Thursday June 28\, 8pm

With works by Robert Arndt\, Ray mond Boisjoly\, Matthew Booth\, Heidi Johansen\, Kyla Mallett\, and Jeremy Todd\, curated by Dan Starling.

“Between You and the Thing Itself” pr esents the work of six artists from Vancouver working with photography. Thi s exhibition was organized in a spontaneous manner and was largely influenc ed by the selected artists’ works as well as my own interest in photography . In this way the show came together organically without a heavy-handed cur atorial premise. The artists in the exhibition do not have any easy categor ization and work within a variety of contexts.

Perhaps a common threa d that runs throughout this selection is an interest in how photography act s as the mediator between you (the viewer) and the thing (the object).  Whi le all of the artists investigate the nature of photography’s re-framing an d its ability to divulge something about the idea of originality and the su bject it is depicting\, each explores this distancing mechanism inherent in the medium through different means. For example\, Kyla Mallet’s Kids on th e Brink\, is an image of a scanned book cover that shows how the serious ma tter of teen suicide is packaged by the medical industry for an anxious pub lic. Formal interventions can also produce comic effects\, as in Matthew Bo oth’s printed stills depicting images of stunned viewers witnessing David B laine’s street magic.

With this exhibition\, I selected artists who a re not typically grouped together in order to move away from the idea of cr eating a cohesive group of artists working in a parallel fashion.  Rather\, I hope that this functions to provide a cross-section of the methods avail able to photography as a re-framing device. I am interested in the mediatio n that photography creates because it opens up an imaginative space of spec ulation—a contemplative space of re-configuring or re-imaging cultural form ations.

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