WESTERN FRONT – Thought, outside

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Thought, outside was an exhibition of lens-based artworks produced between the 1970s and ’90s by Craig Berggold, Marlene Creates, Kiss & Tell, Roy Kiyooka, Laiwan, Ken Lum, and Melinda Mollineaux. The works engage then-emerging frameworks of multiplicity, plurality, and decentering that make the contingent nature of the outside visible. “Outside” is variably expressed as the condition of being out-of-doors, beyond a geographic delineation, without legal recognition or unfamiliar with social custom. It is a position that is sometimes articulated in the negative: by that which is not inside. However, the boundary between the inside and outside is rarely fixed or exclusive; rather, it is relational, durational, and transitory.

Thought, outside was curated by Amy Kazymerchyk, a candidate for the MA in Critical and Curatorial Studies at the University of British Columbia. The exhibition was presented with support from the Killy Foundation and the Audain Endowment for Curatorial Studies through the Department of Art History, Visual Art & Theory in collaboration with the Morris and Helen Belkin Art Gallery at the University of British Columbia. Her research was supported by the Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada.

A small TV is elevated by a white plinth in the corner of a white walled gallery. A grid of small framed photographs hang to the TVs right and one large framed photograph hangs to the TVs left. All photos are black and white while the TVs image is tinted a dull green.

Two rows of black and white photographs with white backing and thin silver frames are hung against a white wall. The rows are made up of three images on the top and four on the bottom. The photographs depict gloves in various poses covered in, surrounded by, and resting on top of dirt.

A black and white image of a glove on the ground is duplicated and scaled within a white border and silver frame. A crease down the centre of the image arrangement indexes a previous fold in the work. The image hangs among other framed images mostly out of frame.

Related People

Amy Kazymerchyk (Curator)

Related Events

2020

Laiwan, Melinda Mollineaux, Craig Berggold, and Susan Stewart in Conversation with Amy Kazymerchyk

Captions:

Thought, outside, installation view, Nov 12, 2020 – Jan 30, 2021. Photo by Dennis Ha.
Roy Kiyooka, StoneDGloves (1970), installation view, Nov 12, 2020 – Jan 30, 2021. Photo by Dennis Ha.
Roy Kiyooka, excerpts from StoneDGloves (1970) print publication, installation view, Nov 12, 2020 – Jan 30, 2021. Photo by Dennis Ha.

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