Multiple interpretations of mapping
Veronika Klaptocz or Bill Jeffries 604.291.4266, gallery@sfu.ca
Carol Thorbes, PAMR, 604.291.3035, cthorbes@sfu.ca
What do satellite images, a Palestinian refugee camp and a wooden chest have in common? Not much unless you’re viewing these items at Simon Fraser University Gallery’s Permeable Borders, Cartographical Illusions exhibit.
At the SFU Burnaby campus gallery until April 21, the exhibit features 32 imaginative creations by faculty, staff, students and artists from surrounding communities. The show combines existing art with new work gathered in response to the Gallery’s call for art based on a map theme.
While some created personal maps of their heart and garden, others have used mapping as a vehicle to explore worldly themes.
Rima Noureddine, a doctoral candidate in anthropology, uses a map and video to document a Palestinian refugee camp. Janine Prevost in the School for the Contemporary Arts uses a hand-painted satellite dish to illustrate how satellite communications transcends geographical boundaries. Nancy Kelly, the wife of a Second World War naval veteran, painted the lid of a wooden chest to trace her husband’s wartime voyages aboard the USS Procyon.
The public is invited to view how artists have used maps to diagram the theatre of the world and to see books of historical maps on display.
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