3 Artists from Vancouver, Los Angeles and Guadalajara
The Distance Between You and Me presents the work of three notable artists who live and work along a north-south axis that links the west coast of Canada to that of the United States and Mexico. Together, their work considers the significance of location and dislocation, not only in the geographical sense, but also with regard to the psychological experience of location. This exhibition provides an opportunity to suggest the importance of place, especially in a world that may be prone to fracture, forgetting and uncertainty, and to investigate the moments of convergence among these disparate geographical locations.
Isabelle Pauwels is a Belgian-born, Vancouver-based artist whose installation addresses the complexities of place and the ways in which visual imagery influences our intellectual and visceral responses to situations and events. Kerry Tribe is a Los Angeles-based artist whose two-channel video installation Here & Elsewhere presents a conversation between a father and young daughter on the nature of time, space and memory. Guadalajara-based Gonzalo Lebrija’s work, which provides the title for this exhibition, is presented as a four-projector 16mm film installation, with related photographs. Each film depicts a figure, the artist himself, running away from the viewer as fast as he can.
The Distance Between You and Me is organized by the Vancouver Art Gallery and curated by Bruce Grenville, Senior Curator. This is the twelfth installment of NEXT: A Series of Artist Projects from the Pacific Rim, presented by TD Bank Group.
