Description:
Faces Front was an exhibition of large-scale portraits drawn by Ken Dollar of Western Front founders and core members. Dollar drew two portraits of each subject from black-and-white negatives projected on the wall, flipping the negative halfway through so each portrait was created using two right sides of the face and two left sides. The resulting asymmetry through this process of mirroring hinted at the possibility of split personalities.
A screening event titled That’s Tanatamation that featured Dollar’s films was presented on the opening night of the exhibition.
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Western Front is a non-profit artist-run centre in Vancouver.
We acknowledge the xʷməθkʷəy̓əm (Musqueam), Skwxwú7mesh (Squamish), and səl̓ílwətaʔɬ (Tsleil-Waututh) Nations as traditional owners of the land upon which Western Front stands.