Artist Talk with Ryan Danny Owen

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“Ryan Danny Owen,” 2024

(courtesy of the artist)

TRUCK will be hosting an artist talk for the current exhibition, Dirty Picture by Ryan Danny Owen. Owen will be leading a tour of the works in the exhibition, which span nearly a decade of their practice.

"Taking the form of the set of a fictional dirty picture, this solo exhibition recontextualizes various personal archives of pornography magazines and VHS tapes using experimental approaches to remove snippets of material, footage, and imagery. Imagined through a weathered blue billboard and the set of a dreamlike film, Dirty Picture delves into themes of fantasy, absence, personal narrative, gender and intergenerational queer identity."

Please be advised that the works in this exhibition feature adult content.

Ryan Danny Owen (they/him/her) is a non-binary visual artist, author, and queer historian based in Mohkinstsis, Treaty 7/Calgary, Alberta. Their work explores intergenerational queer identity, gender, loss, and sexuality through objects, the archive, automatic writing, and performance. Questioning the body through liminality, queer nostalgia, and the disassembling and recontextualizing of loaded material to explore fantasy, memory, and queer absence.

This event will be available virtually on Instagram Live @TRUCKContemporaryArt.

This event is free of cost, open to the public, and requires no ticket to attend.