How do you hold a photography festival when venues are closed? Vancouver's Capture, which runs April 2 to April 30, is trying to reach out virtually.
For instance, it's offering a public art tour of Moyra Davey's outdoor installation, Plymouth Rock, at the Stadium-Chinatown Skytrain station in downtown Vancouver. The installation is composed of black-and-white photos of various farm animals. Accompanying audio features Davey talking about the work.
Moyra Davey, "Plymouth Rock," 2020, silver gelatin prints, installation view (courtesy Capture Photography Festival, Vancouver)
Capture has also organized several virtual exhibitions you can view from home, including one by Vancouver-based, Philippine-born artist Rydel Cerezo, who has taken medium-format photographs of the only people he can touch while in isolation – his family.
Various bus shelters in Vancouver are sporting images from After the Fall of Hmong Tebchaw by Hmong-American photographer Pao Houa Her. The work refers to a 2016 fraud in which a conman claimed to be securing land in Southeast Asia for the stateless Hmong people.
Matilda Aslizadeh, Production (from "Moly and Kassandra" series), 2018, three-channel video installation with sound (courtesy of the artist and Pari Nadimi Gallery, Toronto)
Also available online is an excerpt of a work by Vancouver-based artist Matilda Aslizadeh currently installed at the Vancouver Art Gallery. The work features three simultaneous operatic performances by a female figure who stands amidst three different open-pit mines.
Upcoming events include a Zoom talk by Pixy Liao via Centre A on April 18 from 1 p.m. to 3 p.m. Register here for the talk, in conjunction with her online exhibition, Experimental Relationship (for your eyes only, or maybe mine, too).
As well, Ann Thomas, senior curator of photographs at the National Gallery of Canada, will speak about the gallery's photography collection on April 21 from 4 p.m. to 5 p.m. Register here for the Zoom presentation.
Source: Capture Photography Festival
