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| Christos Dikeakos Folded Cardboard 2005 Lightjet photographic print approx 24 x 28 inches Courtesy of Catriona Jeffries Gallery, Vancouver, BC |
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| Since the late 1960s, Christos Dikeakos' practice has played an important role in the rise of conceptual and post-conceptual art in Vancouver. His works are concerned with the layering of histories over time and the significance of urban spaces as sites to activate memory. His most recent solo show, Domicile/drift, was held in Nov 25 2005 - Jan 16 2006 at Catriona Jeffries Gallery, Vancouver, BC: Cardboard is what we use to pack and transport things and products, but is, itself, disposable. This one is situated on a loading/parking stall: a man's shoe is barely visible under a folded cardboard shelter. There are other accidental elemental readings, such as the Ellsworth Kelly look-alike monochromes above--an ironic readymade of high formalist art. It becomes a consequence of the photograph and for the viewer, but not for the drifter who uses the shelter [...] Nothing in Vancouver, whether it be foreground or background in many of the exhibition images, is to be taken as permanent, or taken for granted. The urban fabric reveals many things, not the least of which are value systems in a sliding scale of opportunism. (Domicile/drift, Christos Dikeakos, 2005) Ephemera + multiples: Robert Smithson |
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