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12:00 pm – 1:00 pm
Pendarvis Harshaw and Brandon Tauszik, Myra Burns, from the Facing Life series, 2018, cinemagraph, 00:10 secs., looped. Courtesy of the Artists.
Gabi Dao, Sensation, association, from the Small fates big feelings series, 2023, Xerox colour copy paper, custom parfum formula, 58.42 x 40.64 cm. Courtesy of the Artist and Unit 17.
Aaron Leon, Untitled 4, from the Altered Landscapes series, 2013–20, chromogenic print, 76.2 x 94.61 cm. Courtesy of the Artist.
Diane Meyer, Brandenburg Gate, from the Berlin series, 2015, embroidered archival inkjet print, 35.56 x 40.64 cm. Courtesy of the Artist and Klompching Gallery.
Alp Peker, patience, from the I looked in the mirror and I saw series, 2023, archival inkjet print, 144.78 x 96.52 cm. Courtesy of the Artist.
Gonzalo Reyes Rodriguez, Untitled (SLP/HGO), 2024, archival inkjet print, 27.94 x 35.56 cm. Courtesy of the Artist.
Installation view of On Time at Pendulum Gallery, 2024. Photo: Dennis Ha
Pendarvis Harshaw and Brandon Tauszik, Myra Burns, from the Facing Life series, 2018, cinemagraph, 00:10 secs., looped. Courtesy of the Artists.
Gabi Dao, Sensation, association, from the Small fates big feelings series, 2023, Xerox colour copy paper, custom parfum formula, 58.42 x 40.64 cm. Courtesy of the Artist and Unit 17.
Aaron Leon, Untitled 4, from the Altered Landscapes series, 2013–20, chromogenic print, 76.2 x 94.61 cm. Courtesy of the Artist.
Diane Meyer, Brandenburg Gate, from the Berlin series, 2015, embroidered archival inkjet print, 35.56 x 40.64 cm. Courtesy of the Artist and Klompching Gallery.
Alp Peker, patience, from the I looked in the mirror and I saw series, 2023, archival inkjet print, 144.78 x 96.52 cm. Courtesy of the Artist.
Gonzalo Reyes Rodriguez, Untitled (SLP/HGO), 2024, archival inkjet print, 27.94 x 35.56 cm. Courtesy of the Artist.
Installation view of On Time at Pendulum Gallery, 2024. Photo: Dennis Ha
Artist Talk
Featured Exhibition On Time, moderated by Jeff Hamada
This event is free.
Online, Zoom
Registration required
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Registration closes Saturday, April 27, 2024, 10:00AM PST
Please note the event time is in Pacific Standard Time
In this activation of Capture Photography Festival’s Featured Exhibition, On Time, seven of the nine artists included in this exhibition – Gabi Dao, Pendarvis Harshaw, Brandon Tauszik, Aaron Leon, Diane Meyer, Alp Peker, and Gonzalo Reyes Rodriguez – are in conversation with Jeff Hamada, Founder and Editor in Chief, Booooooom, who co-curated this exhibition with Emmy Lee Wall, Executive Director and Chief Curator, Capture Photography Festival and Chelsea Yuill, Assistant Curator, Capture Photography Festival. The artists will present slides of their work and jointly discuss their approach to documenting, shaping, and playing with time in their photographs.
On Time is organized by Capture Photography Festival in partnership with Booooooom and co-curated by Emmy Lee Wall, Executive Director and Chief Curator, Capture Photography Festival; Jeff Hamada, Founder and Editor in Chief, Booooooom; and Chelsea Yuill, Assistant Curator, Capture Photography Festival.
Presented by the Audain Foundation, with generous support from the Downtown Vancouver Business Improvement Association, MLT Aikins, PwC Canada, and Leslie Lee and John Murphy.
If you would like to make a donation to support Capture Photography Festival, please donate via our registered charitable organization Vancouver Association for Photographic Arts here. Amounts greater than $20.00 will receive a tax receipt.
About the Participants:
Gabi Dao’s practice manifests as experimental moving images, audio/visual and sculptural installations, collage and collaboration. With an insistence on multiple truths and sensory affirmations, Dao attempts to reclaim and re-enchant meaning-making from the ruins of capitalism and colonialism. Their work as been shown at E-flux Screening Room (Brooklyn, USA), Southern Alberta Art Gallery Maansiksikaitsitapiitsinikssin (Lethbridge, CA), A Tale-of-a-Tub (Rotterdam, NL), The National Gallery of Canada (Ottawa, CA) and Vincom Centre for Contemporary Art (Hà Nội, VN). They are from the unceded and ancestral territories of the xʷməθkwəy̓əm, Skwxwú7mesh and Səl̓ílwətaʔ/Selilwitulh Nations (Vancouver, CA), currently live in Rotterdam (NL).
Pendarvis Harshaw is an Oakland kid who achieved his dream of reading and writing for a living. He’s an award-winning journalist, covering prisons, hip-hop and his Northern Californian community. He currently lives in Sacramento and works in San Francisco at KQED, where he hosts the Rightnowish podcast and is co-editor of BayAreaHipHop.com. You can reach him at @ogpenn on all platforms.
Brandon Tauszik is a self-taught photographer and filmmaker-based in Los Angeles, CA. Tauszik’s work examines elements of America’s social periphery through both personal projects and commissions. Incorporating the largely unexplored medium of cinemagraphs, his work pushes the boundaries of digital photography and has been profiled in publications such as The Washington Post, The Guardian, British Journal of Photography, and more. He is the recipient of a 2018 grant from the Pulitzer Center and is a 2023 Fellow at Stanford University’s Starling Lab.
Aaron Leon, born 1989, Vernon, BC; lives and works in Armstrong, BC, and Splatsin holds a BFA from Concordia University (2013) and is attending the University of British Columbia Kelowna for an MA in Interdisciplinary Graduate Studies. Leon’s works have been exhibited at Kamloops Art Gallery (2019, 2021), as part of the travelling show Soundings: an exhibition in five parts (Kamloops 2021, Banff 2021, St. Johns 2022, Kansas City 2022), Bill Reid Gallery (Vancouver 2018), Salmon Arm Arts Centre (2016, 2017, 2018, 2020, 2022), Lake Country Gallery (2018), FOFA Gallery (Montreal 2013), VAV Gallery (Montreal 2013), Galerie Espace (Montreal 2013), Artscape Wychwood Barns Gallery (Toronto 2011), Gallery at 129 Ossington (Toronto 2012), Access Gallery (Vancouver 2022). Leon has presented a solo show at the Salmon Arm Arts Centre (2016) as well as a public installation as part of Capture Festival at the Waterfront Station in Vancouver (2021) and was nominated for the Philip B. Lind Emerging Artist Prize 2019 and shortlisted 2022.
Diane Meyer (b. 1976 New Jersey, US, lives and works in Los Angeles, CA) holds a BFA from New York University, Tisch School of the Arts (1999) and an MFA from the University of California, San Diego (2002). Her work has been exhibited at Klompching Gallery (NYC); Robert Mann Gallery (NYC); The George Eastman Musuem (Rochester); the Hood Museum (Hanover); Regina Anzenberger Gallery (Vienna); Flowers Gallery (London); the Rotlicht Festival für Analoge Fotografie (Vienna); AMCE Creative Arts (Seattle); Encontros da Imagem Festival (Braga); Diffusion Festival (Cardiff) and many other spaces in the US and abroad. Her work is in the permanent collections of the Museum of Contemporary Photography (Chicago); The George Eastman Musuem (Rochester); and the Hood Musuem (Hanover).
Alp Peker’s practice often focuses on portrait photography rendered in an absurd, up-close style that carries innuendo about social-political issues. Practicing photography from an early age, they graduated from Anadolu University Open Education Faculty, Photography (2019). Peker’s work has been published on platforms such as Adobe Stock, VSCO, Gucci Beauty, Lucie Foundation, EyeEm, PhotoVogue, It’s Nice That, Foam Magazine. Their work has been exhibited by the University of Grenoble (2019), and Galerie Tracanelli Grenoble (2020).Currently, Peker is a Medical Genetics doctor at Akdeniz University, Antalya, Turkey.
Gonzalo Reyes Rodriguez is an artist working in photography and film/video to examine the temporal ambiguity of our experience of images—still but in motion, historical yet continuously made present. He employs materials such as found photographs, magazine interviews and film/tv scripts to overlay the recent past against the present. Recent group exhibitions include the National Gallery of Canada, the Centre for Contemporary Art in Glasgow, and La Capilla de Arte at Universidad de las Américas, Puebla as part of Bienal Sur. His work has been featured in Artforum, Peripheral Review, Terremoto MX, and Hyperallergic. Rodriguez received his MFA from the University of Pennsylvania and was a participant at the Skowhegan School of Painting and Sculpture.
Jeff Hamada
Jeff Hamada is a Japanese Canadian artist who lives and works in Vancouver, on the unceded lands of the Musqueam, Squamish, and Tsleil-Waututh peoples. He is the founder and Editor-In-Chief of Booooooom, a global arts platform dedicated to showcasing the work of emerging artists.
