Elizabeth Milton, "VHS Eyelashes," (performance documentation), 2018
De Construkt Projects, Brooklyn, NY. (photo by Francesca Tirpak)
The Capture photography festival, which runs April 3 to April 30 in galleries and other venues across British Columbia's Lower Mainland, will highlight five feature shows, including one curated by British writer and artist David Campany.
In A Handful of Dust: From the Cosmic to the Domestic, Campany proposes a speculative history of the past century starting with an iconic photograph by legendary artist Man Ray that pictures a sheet of glass belonging to Marcel Duchamp covered in dust.
The show, which runs from Feb. 8 to April 28 at the Polygon Gallery in North Vancouver, makes wide connections between aerial reconnaissance, the American dustbowl, Mussolini’s final car journey and the wars in Iraq.
Other artists include John Divola, Walker Evans, Gerhard Richter, Sophie Ristelhueber, Xavier Ribas and Jeff Wall, presented alongside postcards, press photos, magazine spreads and movies.
The festival's four other feature shows are:
- Elizabeth Milton's A Guided Meditation with VHS Eyelashes at the VIVO Media Arts Centre on April 18.
- Deanna Bowen's A Harlem Nocturne at the Contemporary Art Gallery from April 5 to June 16.
- Kali Spitzer's An Exploration of Resilience from March 14 to April 27 at the grunt gallery.
- Moving Still: Performative Photography from India at the Vancouver Art Gallery from April 20 to Sept. 2.
Meanwhile, Krista Belle Stewart, a member of the Upper Nicola Band of the Okanagan First Nation, has been commissioned to create a new site-specific lens-based work for BC Hydro's Dal Grauer substation.
Her work explores energy and resource extraction in the B.C. Interior, and is focused on the implications for Indigenous communities. It runs from April 3 until March 2020.
Susan Schuppli," Nature Represents Itself," (video still), 2018–19.
Capture has invited Toronto-based curator and writer Jayne Wilkinson to curate this year’s billboard public art project along the Arbutus Greenway. The series, titled Signals in the Sea, features work by Eshrat Erfanian, Christina Battle and Susan Schuppli.
The project takes remote sensing as its starting point, revealing images that consider how technological infrastructure has become embedded in the natural world. Wilkinson has also curated an evening of moving-image art at the Cinematheque on April 10.
Birthe Piontek, "Blonde Pearls," 2018–19, from the series Lacuna.
Capture is once again bringing public art to stations along the Canada Line, which connects downtown Vancouver and Richmond. Featured artists include Naveen Kishore, Birthe Piontek, Adad Hannah, Diamond Point and others.
Capture, launched in 2013, is Western Canada's largest lens-based art festival.
Source: Capture Photography Festival