Curator
Booooooom, Jeff Hamada, Founder and Editor in Chief, Booooooom, Emmy Lee Wall, Capture Photography Festival
Artist
Exhibition Dates
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Sami Farra, Light Cube, from the Fragile Monuments series, 2021. Courtesy of the Artist.
Sami Farra, Plaster Sculpture, from the Fragile Monuments series, 2021. Courtesy of the Artist.
Sami Farra, Found Solution, from the Fragile Monuments series, 2021. Courtesy of the Artist.
Sami Farra, Found Bridge, from the Fragile Monuments series, 2021. Courtesy of the Artist.
Sami Farra, Asphalt Sculpture, from the Fragile Monuments series, 2021. Courtesy of the Artist.
Sami Farra, Found Monolith, from the Fragile Monuments series, 2021. Courtesy of the Artist.
Sami Farra, Copper Sculpture, from the Fragile Monuments series, 2021. Courtesy of the Artist.
Sami Farra, Found Topography, from the Fragile Monuments series, 2021. Courtesy of the Artist.
Sami Farra, Wood Sculpture, from the Fragile Monuments series, 2021. Courtesy of the Artist.
Sami Farra, Urban Decay, from the Fragile Monuments series, 2021. Courtesy of the Artist.
Sami Farra, Found Squares, from the Fragile Monuments series, 2021. Courtesy of the Artist.
Sami Farra, Light Cube, from the Fragile Monuments series, 2021. Courtesy of the Artist.
Sami Farra, Plaster Sculpture, from the Fragile Monuments series, 2021. Courtesy of the Artist.
Sami Farra, Found Solution, from the Fragile Monuments series, 2021. Courtesy of the Artist.
Sami Farra, Found Bridge, from the Fragile Monuments series, 2021. Courtesy of the Artist.
Sami Farra, Asphalt Sculpture, from the Fragile Monuments series, 2021. Courtesy of the Artist.
Sami Farra, Found Monolith, from the Fragile Monuments series, 2021. Courtesy of the Artist.
Sami Farra, Copper Sculpture, from the Fragile Monuments series, 2021. Courtesy of the Artist.
Sami Farra, Found Topography, from the Fragile Monuments series, 2021. Courtesy of the Artist.
Sami Farra, Wood Sculpture, from the Fragile Monuments series, 2021. Courtesy of the Artist.
Sami Farra, Urban Decay, from the Fragile Monuments series, 2021. Courtesy of the Artist.
Sami Farra, Found Squares, from the Fragile Monuments series, 2021. Courtesy of the Artist.
Fragile Monuments, 2021
Swiss architect and photographer Sami Farra’s installation Fragile Monuments investigates the way we understand the three-dimensional world on a two-dimensional picture plane. In this body of work, Farra presents images of accidental sculptures formed from found objects – discarded, everyday detritus such as a pile of rocks and timber, plaster, or wood planks leaning against a wall. These items create precarious installations which Farra has documented, revealing the subtle beauty present even in that which is often overlooked. Other works in this installation demonstrate Farra’s ongoing contemplation of the materiality of photography itself through a process of printing and photographing misshapen and physically manipulated prints which form surreal, slouching sculptures. In considering the translation between picture and sculpture and back again, Farra asks the audience to deliberate on the constructed world as well as the way in which the photographic medium represents that which is around us. Presented in a myriad of sizes, floating across the face of the Canada Line’s Olympic Village Station, Farra’s installation emphasizes the poetic and metaphoric nature of our encounters with both the physical and visual.
Presented in partnership with the Canada Line Public Art Program – InTransit BC. Presented in partnership with Booooooom. Generously supported by Rob Bruno.
