Andi Icaza-Largaespada at the CAG

Visual Art BFA grad Andi Icaza-Largaespada is presenting a new work on the Nelson Street façade of the Contemporary Art Gallery, opening Thursday, July 12, 2018. Entitled (untitled) a mountain bought but not yet named, Icaza-Largaespada's work was produced in fullfillment of her winning the second-annual CAG Prize, which includes financial support towards the production of a new work as well as a solo exhibition at the CAG. Here's how the CAG describes the work on their website:

Typical of the artist’s multidisciplinary practice, a new speculative photographic panorama is presented across our Nelson Street façade. Raising questions surrounding ethics and ecology, the image grows out of recent research into Nicaragua’s rapidly expanding mining industry and its connection to Vancouver’s own history of resource extraction, occupation and expansion. Icaza-Largaespada’s subtle insertion of an enigmatic figure pictured within the manipulated landscape suggests a symbolic defiance against the continued colonial exploits of a Vancouver-based mining company in Nicaragua. Shrouded in a golden material, the character at once surveys the scene and refuses our gaze, a quiet manifestation of implied resistance. As described by Unangax scholar Eve Tuck, “resistance is not simply bodies or events articulated against power, but is diffuse, plastic, ungraspable.”

Icaza-Largaespada will also be giving an artist talk on Thursday, July 26, 2018, at 7PM.