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A Day at Capture with Anna Luth, Assisant Curator
Best days for this self-guided tour are Wednesday – Sunday
There are so many amazing lens-based works across the Lower Mainland that are part of Capture this year, and I’ve tried to fit as many locations into my day as I could. This is my first year working for Capture, and I’m very excited to share these projects with you!
12 PM
After a slow morning, I’ll begin my day closer to my home (New Westminster) at the Art Gallery at Evergreen, Coquitlam. This Selected Exhibition, Karen Zalamea: Every Surface Is a Shrine is a must-see! I’m particularly interested in the way Zalamea manipulates archival images into braided rope. The winding pathways of the installation remind me of the difficulty of revisiting fragmented memories.
12:30 PM
After visiting the gallery, be sure to take a stroll around Lafarge Lake, and maybe, no definitely, treat yourself at Rocky Point Ice Cream (my favourite flavour is Lemon Yogurt Cookie!).
1:30 PM
Next stop is the Gibson Art Museum at SFU on Burnaby Mountain to visit the Featured Exhibition Hannah Rickards: I am the infant and I am the bird. The winding drive through the mossy trees on the way to the gallery puts me in a contemplative state, and Rickards’s video works in the sparse gallery elicit a similar response. Be sure to give yourself time to linger!
2:30 PM
Let’s head to downtown Vancouver. On the way, I pop into Burnaby Art Gallery Offsite at the McGill Library to see the Selected Exhibition, Sharyn Yuen: Suspended in Time, which features photographs printed on handmade paper that untangle themes of family and distance.
3:30 PM
I drive down East Hastings Street to see several billboard projects, including a work by Cannupa Hanska Luger, commissioned by the Vancouver Art Gallery, and Jake Kimble’s curatorial project I’m Moveable, featuring the work of Jeremy Dennis, Katherine Takpannie, and Maureen Gruben. These large-scale images interrupt the everyday, and are powerful assertions of Indigenous presence in the city.
4:00 PM
I’m going to park my car and take transit for the next few stops to see some of the public art projects in downtown Vancouver, and hopefully experience a sunbeam or two along the way! I walk up Burrard St. to the BC Hydro Dal Gauer substation to see Michelle Sound’s public artwork Wherever You Are. Sound so clearly encapsulates the intimacy of inheritance in this image of her dear friend Zoe Ann Cardinal Cire. It’s amazing to see the way this commission came together at this monumental scale.
4:30 PM
Now it’s definitely time for some food. I head over to the Mr. Shawarma food truck in Robson Square for a satisfying chicken Shawarma (the falafel is great here too, for my veggie friends!).
5:00 PM
After a quick food break, hopefully in another sunbeam, I’ll visit the Vancouver Art Gallery to see their singular collection of Stephen Shore photographs. His work is new to me, and I’m loving the colour quality and compelling narratives embedded in his images.
6:00 PM
Time to make my way to the Vancouver City Centre station to see works from flatrocks (2024) by Hannah Claus that I curated! I was so excited to meet with Claus and learn about her process: first, she documented the stones of the Kaniatarowánen (Saint Lawrence River), and then meticulously stitched together the images into each composition. These images convey a sense of peacefulness in this bustling area, and offer a timely reminder of the constant tension between extractive industries and the preservation of the environment.
Well, folks, I think that’s all we have time for today. Thanks for joining me, and I do hope you continue exploring the many other public artworks and exhibitions across the Lower Mainland. There’s still so much to see 🙂
Anna Luth (she/her) is an emerging curator, interdisciplinary artist and musician. Her interests are informed by collective creation and blurring the boundaries between disciplines. She is the Assistant Curator at Capture Photography Festival, and previously worked as the Assistant Curator at Art Gallery at Evergreen and Curatorial Assistant at the Vancouver Art Gallery where she is presently an Educator. She holds a Bachelor of Visual Arts with a minor in Curatorial Practices from Emily Carr University of Art + Design, Vancouver. Luth gratefully lives on the unceded, ancestral and traditional lands of the Qayqayt Nation and Coast Salish peoples, colonially known as New Westminster, BC.
