Nick Cave, Dana Claxton, Carrie Mae Weems, among others
June 24–September 5, 2021
The Polygon Gallery
101 Carrie Cates Court
North Vancouver BC V7M 3J4
Canada
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Thursday 10am–8pm
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The Polygon Gallery announces Interior Infinite, on view from June 25 to September 5, 2021. Predominantly featuring portraiture, with an emphasis on self-portraiture, Interior Infinite focuses on costume and masquerade as strategies for revealing, rather than concealing, identities. Across the exhibition, disguise functions as an unmasking, as artists construct their own images through adornment in order to visually represent embodied experience, memory, and understanding.
Organized by The Polygon’s Assistant Curator Justin Ramsey, the exhibition features 16 international artists whose works span photography, video, performance, and sculpture, including Lacie Burning, Claude Cahun, Charles Campbell, Nick Cave, Dana Claxton, Martine Gutierrez, Kris Lemsalu, Meryl McMaster, Ursula Mayer, Zanele Muholi, Aïda Muluneh, Zak Ové, Skeena Reece, Yinka Shonibare CBE, Sin Wai Kin, Carrie Mae Weems, and Zadie Xa.
Interior Infinite draws on the spirit of Carnival, a celebration of both radical togetherness and unique self-expression. The title is drawn from Rabelais and His World by Mikhail Bakhtin, a text that extolled the potential for carnivalesque practices to overcome the limits of repressive conformity and expand our social imagination. The vibrant, fluid, and myriad expressions of identities seen in the exhibition become an act of resistance to erasure, pushing narrow definitions of normativity to include a broader range of lived realities. As Bakhtin writes: “The interior infinite could not have been found in a closed and finished world”.
Presenting Sponsor:
TD Bank Group
This presentation is part of The Polygon Gallery’s exhibition series New Perspectives: revealing diverse perspectives, untold stories, and new voices in visual art.
Generously supported by Brigitte & Henning Freybe, and Paula Palyga & David Demers, through their Founding Membership in The Polygon’s new Curator’s Circle; Leonardo Lara & Michael Prout, and Terrence & Lisa Turner, through their Membership in the Exhibition Circle.
