Unexplained Parade Part Six
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Catriona Jeffries Gallery 950 East Cordova Street, Vancouver, British Columbia V6A 1M6
Ashes Withyman, "Cetus, Compass, River, Furnas, Musca, Altar, Cup," 2017–2018
radio, matches, animal call, wood and stone rattle, photocopy, grass, usb flash drive, gold plated tin, sand, ziploc bag with contact microphone, tuning fork, dried grass, bell, painted plywood, 52 x 29 x 9 in. (133 x 74 x 23 cm)
artist talks by Myfanwy MacLeod Kevin Schmidt Saturday, March 30, 2pm
Since the Bauhaus, the two formerly antagonistic camps propagating purely aesthetic versus purely utilitarian value have been conflated and reborn in the commercial and all but perfect circuit of production and consumption. Our current world is characterized not only by the levelling of differences between categories of objects but also by the levelling of access to design for different social classes. Design has long since ceased to be the preserve of the wealthy few who can afford to have their homes comprehensively designed from their (now increasingly rare) roof tiles down to the (progressively obsolete) light switch. On a sharply descending scale of quality, design today is available to everyone—or rather, everything is called design. … The Bauhaus marked a shift from the political economy of the product to the political economy of the sign. Within capitalist modernity, the ensuing processes, such as the substitution of the product by its packaging, have further fueled the inflation of design and its definition.–Nicole Wermers, 2011
Unexplained Parade is the inaugural exhibition of Catriona Jeffries at 950 East Cordova in Vancouver, Canada. As the exhibition progresses, the work of more than forty-two artists will appear and disappear, scheduled and unscheduled, at numerous locations. We invite you to consider these works and each new arrangement as we share how the exhibition progresses.