Song of the Open Road: Capture Photography Festival

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Dawit L. Petros, "Untitled (Epilogue III), Catania, Italy," 2016

archival colour pigment print. Courtesy the artist & Tiwani Contemporary.

Song of the Open Road

Vikky Alexander, Robert Arndt, Gerard Byrne, Jacqueline Hoàng Nguyễn, Kelly Jazvac, Kelly Lycan, Niamh O’Malley, Dawit L. Petros, Greg Staats and Lisa Tan

Presented in partnership with Capture Photography Festival, 2017

Public opening: Saturday, April 1, 4-6pm

Artist talk: Greg Staats - Sunday, April 2, 2pm, CAG, 555 Nelson Street, free

Contemporary Art Gallery, all spaces and off-site at Yaletown-Roundhouse Station, Canada line.

Taking its title from a poem by Walt Whitman, the Contemporary Art Gallery presents a group exhibition as the central feature of this year’s Capture Photography Festival.

Bringing together ten artists from Canada, Eritrea, Ireland, Sweden and USA, the exhibition presents an expanded field of photographic practice encompassing still, documentary traditions through to digital technologies and moving image, which through black-and-white silver gelatin prints, digital printouts from Internet searches and found archive materials, collectively examine notions of what you see is most definitely not what you get.

Song of the Open Road includes works that combine thematically to interrogate ideas rooted in photographic histories, engaging ideas such as authenticity, recollection, remembrance and belonging, examining how the photographic image documents and records these or provides evidence of differing realities.

The exhibition is presented inside and outside, across the entire gallery spaces and in the local community. Ambient Advertising (2016) is a specially reconfigured work by Toronto artist Kelly Jazvac. Created from salvaged billboard images of anotionally quintessential Canadian landscape that she has reframed, manipulated and cut through, it visually envelops the gallery at street level.

Off-site, at nearby Yaletown-Roundhouse Station, Canada line, renowned Canadian artist Vikky Alexander presents Model Suite (Sliding Door) (2005/17), a large-scale photo mural. Interplaying with its architectural surroundings, the station’s glass pavilion lends a further physical and visual layer to the work involving reflection and refracted images as we observe daily activities through the piece itself.