T he Or Gallery is pleased to present Facing the Animal\, a group ex hibition curated by CCST candidate Tarah Hogue featuring w orks by Julie Andreyev\, Mary Anne Barkhouse and Bill Burns.
The work s in this exhibition ask what facing the animal might mean in contemporary art. Using wolves and their domesticated descendents as subjects\, the arti sts challenge dualities of human/animal and culture/nature in favour of mor e complex interactions. Through narratives of conservation\, industry\, wil derness and urban life using the media of sculpture\, photography\, video a nd installation\, we are asked to question the categories we use to shape o ur sense of the world in works that are both irreverent and intimate.
Vancouver-based artist Julie Andreyev's Animal Lover seri es is an “interspecies collaboration” with her two dogs\, Tom and Sugi\, th at includes video works and an online blog (http://julieandreyev.com/tomsugi-blog/). A newly comp iled video collection from the blog follows the daily lives of Tom and Sugi \, a portrait of the dogs' unique behaviours and social lives. In the 2009 video installation\, Aria\, Tom and Sugi are pictured as the central subjec ts within the iconic Canadian landscape of Banff\, Alberta. Recordings take n from the dogs' vocalizations and their surrounding environment are compos ed into a musical soundtrack culminating in an “operatic solo” by Tom.
< p>Mary Anne Barkhouse was born in Vancouver\, BC\, and bel ongs to the Nimpkish band\, Kwakiutl First Nation. Currently based in Ontar io\, Barkhouse uses animal imagery in ways that examine popular perceptions of them and challenge divisions between scientific and alternate forms of knowledge. With playmats and hand-made wooden wolves\, Barkhouse's dry wit reveals contradictions between resource management and tourism that constr uct differing ideas of the “wilderness\,” and what effects this has on an a nimal that is often cast to the periphery.Toronto-based artist
Photo: Top image\; Julie Andreyev\, Tom
and Sugi working in the studio on Animal Lover\, 2012. Courtesy of the art
ist.
Middle image\; Mary Anne Barkhouse\, WMU 51\, 2011\, mixed media.
Courtesy of the artist.
Bottom image\; Bill Burns\, Seoul Dogs\, 2003
\, colour chromogenic prints. Courtesy of the artist.
This e xhibition is made possible through support from the Killy Foundation and th e Audain Endowment for Curatorial Studies through the Department of Art His tory\, Visual Art and Theory in collaboration with the Morris and Helen Bel kin Art Gallery at The University of British Columbia.
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