Museum of Metaphors
Extended Anniversary Installation
Museum of Metaphors
Hadley Howes (Vancouver) and Maxwell Stephens (Vancouver)
As a special commission to celebrate Open Space's 30th Anniversary, Hadley Howes and Maxwell Stephens will decorate the foyer of the gallery as a Rococo ‘ode to the patron’. They will specifically reference singerie, a satirical style of decorative painting from the 18th century in which monkeys are depicted performing human activities. This site-specific, trompe l’oeil installation, which invites the viewer to be complicit with decorative deception, will be part of the collaborative duo's ongoing investigation into representation, illusion and illustration.
The Argument Machine
April 19-26
The Argument Machine
Chris Baker (Victoria, BC)
Vertical Gallery
Chris Baker’s The Argument Machine is a box that resembles some form of briefcase or luggage. Inside it the viewer can see a light, knobs, some levers, a VU meter—all encased in a bronze/gold metal casing. Sounds of computerized voices emit from this peculiar machine and they argue about art, technology and their personal qualms with each other. The work is about the progress of technology and its limitation—i.e. we can make a computer think but we can’t make it feel, and in reality anything it says or thinks is essentially regurgitated human information, never original thought.
The Argument Machine
Chris Baker (Victoria, BC)
Vertical Gallery
Chris Baker’s The Argument Machine is a box that resembles some form of briefcase or luggage. Inside it the viewer can see a light, knobs, some levers, a VU meter—all encased in a bronze/gold metal casing. Sounds of computerized voices emit from this peculiar machine and they argue about art, technology and their personal qualms with each other. The work is about the progress of technology and its limitation—i.e. we can make a computer think but we can’t make it feel, and in reality anything it says or thinks is essentially regurgitated human information, never original thought.
Dream Sequence
April 11-18
Dream Sequence
Jennifer Crighton (Victoria, BC)
Vertical Gallery
Jennifer Crighton’s Dream Sequence is an exploration into what motivates and defines individuality and personal identity. The work explores how our waking and sleeping dreams affect our reality in the present. If humans are shaped by environment and genealogy, what aspects of the self are available for personal interpretation and reconstruction? The overlapped transparent images used in Dream Sequence map the internal world of a dream.
Dream Sequence
Jennifer Crighton (Victoria, BC)
Vertical Gallery
Jennifer Crighton’s Dream Sequence is an exploration into what motivates and defines individuality and personal identity. The work explores how our waking and sleeping dreams affect our reality in the present. If humans are shaped by environment and genealogy, what aspects of the self are available for personal interpretation and reconstruction? The overlapped transparent images used in Dream Sequence map the internal world of a dream.