Artist: Mere Phantoms: Maya Ersan & Jaimie Robson. Three Cities: Prayer and Protest is a shadow-based installation that investigates sites of tension, controversy, and contact within three cosmopolitan environments.
Date/Time: Jan 12 2017, 7:00 pm to 10:00 pm
Vancouver, Grunt Gallery
Opening: January 12, 2017 from 7:00 - 10:00 pm
Exhibition Dates: January 13 – February 18, 2017
Inspired by recent cities the artists have lived and worked in (including Istanbul, Montreal and Vancouver), the exhibition explores notions of prayer and protest as communal expressions of personal hope, desire, demand and outrage.
Mere Phantoms is a Montreal based duo. They are artists Maya Ersan and Jaimie Robson.
Drawing on traditions of shadow theatre, early cinema and papercutting, they create interactive installations and performances positioned between spectacle and experience.
These works function as immersive environments that rely on audience participation and explore the possibilities of situating the audience as performer.
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