Vincent Chevalier: À Vancouver

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Vincent Chevalier, "À Vancouver," 2016

Screening: Saturday, May 6, 7pm

Artist Talk to follow

Grand Luxe Hall, Western Front

Free Admission

À Vancouver is an experimental video essay based in autobiography, featuring interviews between the artist and his father about familial and individual sexual histories. Blending documentary and fiction, the video examines and expands upon parallel events, wherein each man traveled across Canada to Vancouver, and had formative (homo)sexual experiences. This story is recounted bilingually in French and English voiceover with subtitles and live action re-enactment of fictionalized events. The artist will be in attendance and the screening will be followed by an artist talk.

Currently based in Toronto, Vincent Chevalier is an artist who melds autobiography, documentary research, and appropriated media to construct uncanny works on screen. This practice has roots in his earliest experiments with performance and video. Known for his videos and digital interventions, these projects constitute an autoethnographic study of AIDS and queer sexuality as they relate to personal narratives and larger social, political, and historical contexts.

Since graduating from Concordia University in 2011, his videos and artworks have exhibited internationally at venues including the Australian Cinematheque, Oberhausen Kurzfilmtage, Deutsche Hygiene Museum, DePaul Art Museum, NYC Porn Film Festival, Dirty Looks: On Location, Vtape, and Buddies In Bad Times Theatre.