Stan Douglas, Vancouver, 15 June 2011 (detail), 2021. Courtesy of the artist, Victoria Miro, London and Venice, and David Zwirner, New York, London, Paris and Hong Kong.
You don't have to travel to Italy to see the work Canada's official representative to this year's Venice Biennale produced to international acclaim.
The Polygon Gallery in North Vancouver is presenting 2011 ≠ 1848 by Stan Douglas from Sept. 9 to Nov. 6.
The photography and video installations have been favourably noted by international critics in Venice.
It's the first time the work will be shown in Canada. The exhibition will then travel to the Remai Modern in Saskatoon and the National Gallery of Canada in Ottawa.
The photographs examine the legacy of protest, focusing on four events in 2011, including the Stanley Cup riot in Vancouver and the start of the Arab Spring in Tunis.
The video installation, ISDN, considers music as cultural resistance, depicting a fictionalized collaboration between rappers from London and Cairo.
A second Douglas exhibition, Allegories of the Present, will open Sept. 9 at Griffin Art Projects, also in North Vancouver. The survey show, which continues to Dec. 11, offers a deeper understanding of his career, bringing together photographic works from the 1990s to the present.
Highlights include Hogan's Alley, from 2014, Ballantyne Pier, 18 June 1935, from 2008, and Pursuit, Fears, Catastrophe: Ruskin, B.C., from 1993.
Source: Polygon Gallery, Griffin Art Projects