Futur Cache
— 2018
Futur Cache IV
analogue collage on cotton rag paper (62 x 94 cm)
While completing an archival search, I uncovered two collections unique to the City of Vancouver Archives; a set of Cold War era bomb shelter brochures and the ‘Survey of Significant Home Architecture in the ‘West Coast Style’ from 1945 – 1975’. Included in these collections are photographs, maps and rare architectural plans related to the planning and construction of a ‘home’. Bomb shelters and west coast housing are both domestic architectures, yet they symbolize deeply opposing notions of comfort, protection and safety. As an artist engaged in archival research and collage, the above collections presented a unique opportunity to examine two contrasting regional plans for refuge and survival.
This body of work employed a research phase as a platform of visual inquiry. The inherent qualities of collage (unusual juxtaposition, layering, repurposing of familiar images and world-building) were engaged consciously to make new collage compositions. As a medium, collage enabled the creation of works that problematize and unpack the institutional organization and cultural assumptions of traditional archival records.
Futur Cache I
analogue collage on cotton rag paper (62 x 94 cm)
Futur Cache III
analogue collage on cotton rag paper (62 x 94 cm)
Futur Cache II
analogue collage on cotton rag paper (62 x 94 cm)
Futur Cache V
analogue collage on cotton rag paper (62 x 94 cm)
Futur Cache VI
analogue collage on cotton rag paper (62 x 94 cm)
Futur Cache VII
analogue collage on cotton rag paper (62 x 94 cm)
suburban exhibition
series installation image for sub_urban solo exhibition at ACT gallery, Maple Ridge
Research + Development
Analogue collage + process details