The Vancouver Project

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While in residence at Western Front, Toronto-based artist David Buchan developed The Vancouver Project—a photo-mural based on an extant historical image with a recognizably Vancouver setting. The new work continued Buchan’s practice of reconstructing and re-presenting familiar images, intentionally layered to challenge assumptions about language and visual image making. 

In The Vancouver Project, Buchan interrogated the seemingly disparate methods of “fine art” production versus “commercial art,” honing in on the difference between work produced for the corporate commodities market versus that created for the high powered trading of the art market.

As part of the exhibition, Buchan staged a performance in the Grand Luxe Hall that blended fiction and documentation to trace the history of his persona, Lamonte del Monte.