The 2017 iteration of the Capture Photography Festival is bigger than ever. With 10 public art projects and over 80 exhibitions to see, it’s difficult to know where to start! Allow the Loden Hotel concierge to assist you. Below is a list of recommended public installations, exhibitions, and events. For your convenience, all are located in Vancouver’s downtown core.
radial systems
EXHIBITION
March 11–April 15, 2017
Marian Penner Bancroft
Republic Gallery
732 Richards St
Gallery Hours:
Tuesday–Saturday, 10 am–5pm
This new body of work attempts an apprehension of activity almost too slow for perception, focusing on ordinary movements: logs drifting, birds flying, garbage burning, and tugboats plying the Fraser River. [More info]
Marian Penner Bancroft, Parasol, 2016
News Photographers Association of Canada
Annual Pictures of the Year Nominees
EXHIBITION
March 20–April 14, 2017
Pendulum Gallery
885 West Georgia St
Gallery Hours:
Monday–Wednesday, 9 am–6 pm
Thursday & Friday, 9 am–9 pm
Saturday, 9 am–5 pm
The News Photographers Association of Canada (NPAC) celebrates and champions quality and ethical photography in journalism. This event is the largest annual photo contest in Canada and it showcases the best work of its members. It also recognizes the Photojournalist of the Year, Photograph of the Year, and Student Photographer of the Year. [More info]
Darryl Dyck/The Canadian Press, A woman who didn’t want to be identified by name exhales
after taking a hit from a bong during the annual 4/20 cannabis culture celebration
at Sunset Beach in Vancouver, BC, April 20, 2016
Shift
EXHIBITION
March 27–June 9, 2017
Mark Mizgala
Art Rentals & Sales
Vancouver Art Gallery
Annex Building, 1st Floor
750 Hornby St
Gallery Hours:
Monday–Friday, 10 am–5 pm
Mizgala’s photographs imagine a future where nature and humanity exist in harmony and the natural world finds its rightful home alongside the outputs of human production. [More info]
Mark Mizgala, Shift (Hair Brush), 2016
Unknown Road
PUBLIC INSTALLATION
April 1–September 1, 2017
Jon Rafman
Canada Line: Vancouver City Centre Station
SW corner of Georgia St and
Granville St intersection
Google Street View started in 2007 as an experiment in five cities, but Rafman’s series The Nine Eyes of Google Street View—which captures intriguing scenes documented by the Internet giant—reminds us that the mapping project has expanded to far-flung corners of the world. [More info]
Jon Rafman, Unknown Road, Knock Killua, Westmead, Ireland, 2011, 2011
Falun Series
PUBLIC INSTALLATION
April 1–April 28, 2017
Joseph Staples
See artworks at the following locations:
Ollie Quinn, 303 Cambie St
Inform Interiors, 97 Water St
John Fluevog Shoes, 65 Water St
Inform Interiors, 50 Water St
lululemon lab, 50 Powell St
Often, collages are made from many different images that are used only once. For the Falun Series, Staples instead investigates if something lasting can be made by returning over and again to one series of images. [More info]
Joseph Staples, Falun Series (installation mock up), 2010—
Song of the Open Road
FEATURED EXHIBITION
April 1–June 18, 2017
Vikky Alexander, Robert Arndt, Gerard Byrne,
Jacqueline Hoàng Nguyễn, Kelly Jazvac, Kelly Lycan,
Niamh O’Malley, Dawit L. Petros, Greg Staats, Lisa Tan
Contemporary Art Gallery
555 Nelson St
Gallery Hours:
Tuesday–Sunday, 12 pm–6 pm
Bringing together artists from Canada, Eritrea, Ireland, Sweden, and the US, Song of the Open Road includes works that come together to interrogate ideas rooted in photographic histories, engaging ideas such as veracity, recollection, remembrance, belonging, staging, and how the image documents and records these or is evidence of differing realities. [More info]
Song of the Open Road: Curator Tour
EVENT
April 22, 2017, at 3 pm
Contemporary Art Gallery
555 Nelson Street
Join a curator tour of Capture’s Feature Exhibition, Song of the Open Road. [More info]
Kelly Lycan, Nearby Nearby: 291 Burlap Walls, 2016
#haunted_hunted
PUBLIC INSTALLATION
April 1–September 1, 2017
Tania Willard
Canada Line: South Granville Entrance
outside the United Kingdom Building
at 409 Granville St
For nearly two decades, the 337 km stretch of the Trans-Canada Highway between Kamloops and Alberta has witnessed major infrastructural upgrades. The twinning process, expanding the highway from two lanes to four, brings simultaneous construction and destruction to the lands of the Secwepemc (Shuswap) First Nation. In response to this persistent intrusion of space, both sacred and lived, Secwepemc artist Tania Willard’s #haunted_hunted series disrupts the unquestioned motives that pave the way for these developments. [More info]
Tania Willard, #haunted_hunted, 2014–15
Brand New Era Social Club
PUBLIC INSTALLATION
April 1, 2017–March 31, 2018
Alex Morrison
BC Hydro Dal Grauer Substation
944 Burrard St
Alex Morrison’s diverse practice explores architecture’s role in reflecting and shaping ideologies, with an interest in how these ideologies fail and shift while the buildings embodying their beliefs live on. By analyzing architectural forms, Morrison explores how alternative narratives and histories trouble and intertwine with those prescribed by an architect. [More info]
Alex Morrison, Brand New Era Social Club, 2017
Capture Speaker Series:
Ema Peter – Digesting Architecture
EVENT
April 18, 2017, from 6 pm–7 pm
Inform Interiors
50 Water St
We mostly know famous architecture not through direct experience, but through images made by architectural photographers like Ema Peter. In conversation with Mark Busse of HCMA Architecture + Design, Peter discusses the constructed nature of architectural photos. [More info]
