Ten Thousand Suns: Curated by CCST candidate Jeremy Jaud


DATE
Thursday September 12, 2013 - Saturday October 26, 2013
TIME
5:30 PM - 5:00 PM

Exhibition runs September 13 – October 26, 2013.

Satellite Gallery presents Ten Thousand Suns, a new group exhibition that features works in sculpture, audio, video and performance by Rebecca Belmore, Tanya Tagaq, Luke Parnell, Guadalupe Martinez, Abbas Akhavan, Jamie Look, Ali Ahadi, Erin Siddall, Carlos Colín and Brianne Nord-Stewart. These artists investigate our past and present relationships to resource extraction, the body and land.

The location of the exhibition in downtown Vancouver—a global resource exploration hub, major international port and un-ceded First Nations territory—is home to some 1,200 junior mining exploration companies that operate globally.  Coal alone accounts for almost 40% of the total volume of goods moved through the Port of Vancouver. At present only three land-claim agreements have been ratified in all of British Columbia.

The exhibition brings together contemporary artists from British Columbia, the Northwest Territories, Nunavut, Ontario, Argentina, Iran and Mexico.  Exploring effacement, memory and remembering this exhibition will consider the layered interconnections of policy with respect to resource-based development projects in Canada and globally, modern technology and artistic practice.

Ten Thousand Suns is curated by Jeremy Jaud, a UBC Critical and Curatorial Studies MA Candidate.

This exhibition is made possible with support from the Michael O’Brian Family Foundation, the Killy Foundation, Government of the Northwest Territories, and the Audain Endowment for Curatorial Studies through the Department of Art History, Visual Art and Theory in collaboration with the Morris and Helen Belkin Art Gallery at The University of British Columbia, and Satellite Gallery.

For more information contact:
Karen Benbassat
tel: 604-681-8425, karen@satellitegallery.ca
www.satellitegallery.ca

Satellite Gallery is a Michael O’Brian Family Foundation project with partners the Morris and Helen Belkin Art Gallery and the Museum of Anthropology at UBC, and Presentation House Gallery.



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