Not exact matches
«The reality is
urban centres have a density of population that
allows artists to survive.»
Roy Arden's reputation as an
artist largely rests on his photographs of the
urban and industrial environment in and around Vancouver; these photographs are carefully composed in a way that
allows them to straddle the line between documentation and works of art.
Therefore, despite the narrow shape of the gallery and the limited floor area available, the peculiar structure of the Storefront
allows artists to create site - specific installations which creatively play and interact with the architectural and
urban framework they are located into.
ZKR's curatorial collective and the various
artists included,
allow for multiple perspectives that engage with Matta - Clark's work — both as documentation and intervention in the
urban landscape and its social fabric — in distinctive ways.
According to the accompanying press release, the
artists intend for Storefront «to create a faux reality... which bleeds into the reality of
urban space»
allowing the viewer to reflect on «the increasingly rapid ways in which public space is constantly being designed, defined, erased, and built again.»