Andi Icaza-Largaespada at the CAG
Visual Art BFA grad is presenting a new work on the Nelson Street fa莽ade of the , 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 , 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 :
Typical of the artist鈥檚 multidisciplinary practice, a new speculative photographic panorama is presented across our Nelson Street fa莽ade. Raising questions surrounding ethics and ecology, the image grows out of recent research into Nicaragua鈥檚 rapidly expanding mining industry and its connection to Vancouver鈥檚 own history of resource extraction, occupation and expansion. Icaza-Largaespada鈥檚 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, 鈥渞esistance is not simply bodies or events articulated against power, but is diffuse, plastic, ungraspable.鈥�
Icaza-Largaespada will also be giving an artist talk on Thursday, July 26, 2018, at 7PM.