Vanishing Act
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Centre A: Vancouver International Centre for Contemporary Asian Art 205-268 Keefer Street (Sun Wah Centre), Vancouver, British Columbia V6A 1X5
Bassem Saad, "Kink Retrograde," 2019
Video still HD video, 19 minutes. Courtesy of the artist.
Opening Reception:Saturday, July 2, 2022, 5 – 8 PM PDT
Featuring nearly 20 artists from around the world, Vanishing Act is a survey of queer artistic practices from the Global South – South Asia, Africa, the Middle East, and their diasporas, presented in partnership with the 2022 Queer Arts Festival.
Centre A hosts works by Areez Katki, Shahana Rajani, Renuka Rajiv, Bassem Saad, Syma Tariq and Sita Balani, and Omer Wasim in the gallery.
The exhibition’s creative team, Adwait Singh (curator) and SD Holman (creative director), ask viewers to “behold the hulking vessel of modernity, where the only hope for a future is a ghostly one, the only inheritance a poisoned gift” and “to face our own Frankensteins, in a manner that queers have long been wont, haunted as we are by spectral toxicities.”
Image: Video still of Bassem Saad’s Kink Retrograde (2019), HD video, 19 minutes. Courtesy of the artist.