Corey Adams\, Roy Arden\, Geoffrey Fa rmer\, Angus Ferguson\, Jacob Gleeson\, Mark Lewis\, Anne Ramsden\, Matthew Robertson
The title of the exhibition\, The Backlot \, makes reference to the false façades typically found on the lot s at major Hollywood studios. Consisting of two or three walls and sometime s a roof\, the façades on the backlot are essentially shells of what is ima gined to exist inside—they provide the viewer with minimum visual informati on and little more. Though it does not actually have a true backlot of its own\, Vancouver can be understood as having many of the same qualities of t he traditional backlot. Creating illusion through the concealing and reveal ing of selected elements of a location is central to the filmmaking process \, and in the many films that Vancouver has appeared as a backdrop\, it is rarely represented as itself\, but rather\, is used almost exclusively as a stand-in for any other city.
The artwork in this exhibition consider s the ways in which the Vancouver film industry disrupts and interrupts spa ce within the city and aims to examine how the film industry’s dependence o n the fictional construction of places and locations is embedded in Vancouv er’s understanding (or misunderstanding) of itself. Through video\, film\, photography\, and installation\, eight artists who have at some point lived in Vancouver explore how the city is marketed and sold as a series of loca tions and services\, how it is presented as fictitious or generic\, and how this contributes to the absence of a sense of place in what is one of the most filmed cities in the world.
This project is curated by S ophie Brodovitch\, a candidate to the Masters Degree in Critical a nd Curatorial Studies at The University of British Columbia.
Belk in Satellite gratefully acknowledges the support of the Alvin Balkind Fund for Student Curatorial Initiatives\, the Department of Art History\, Visual Art\, and Theory\, the Faculty of Arts\, and the Museum of Anthropology at The University of British Columbia.
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