We had a....... long walk... to the Ikon gallery, to view a couple of exhibitions installed there. The first one we saw was on the first floor, by Susan Collis 'Since I fell for you'. The rooms were painted white with ordinary looking objects placed within. Now at first people would think the room is undergoing construction work, but really that was the exhibition.
There were things like a sheet that was embroidered and a shopping bag that was all hand rendered with detail. The screws on the walls were the most simple and pure part of the exhibition. At first when you looked at them, they were just tiny screws in the wall, but at a closer glance, there were diamonds inside.
What I made out of Collis's exhibition and what I really liked about it was how she was playing with the idea of having meaningless objects(to some people) and making them... noticed through value with the diamonds and gems. Also there is that thing where people will question her work and make statements like, 'THIS is not art!', but what is art really? What I took her exhibition to be, is that art is supposed to make you think, reach out to new boundaries, really make you curious, like toying with the child inside and thats the impact her exhibition hadon me.
The second exhibition we saw on the second floor gallery, by Ron Terada named 'Who I think I am'.
The text on the walls was brilliant, like a story that carried on and on. In his interview Terada said, 'Text is all around us. It's very graphic. And using it can be direct and practical. I like that text can go unnoticed and be seen as completely opaque.'
The 'entering city of Vancouver' was really bold, and the way it is made to look like a real road sign is just amazing. -The idea behind the sign was, the art worlds idea or perception of what Vancouver art is or isn't.-
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