Manufactured Nostalgias
Program, P.2143
- Identifier
- P.2143
- Category
- Visual Arts
- Date
- March 4 – 26, 2011
- Description
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Open Space opens Manufactured Nostalgias, an exhibition of photo-based work by Roja Aslani (Kelowna), d bradley muir (Victoria) and Martin Beauregard (Montreal) on Friday night, March 4 at 7:30 p.m. Each of the three artists refers
to popular culture, tourism and the entertainment industry to activate complicated images informed or challenged by nostalgia.
Martin Beauregard’s Drive End mobilizes the mythic figure of the cowboy, starring his 88-year old grandfather, splicing the Hollywood cowboy with an industrial landscape all bathed in an elegiac glow. Roja Aslani invokes the television culture/entertainment industry by inviting people to create costumes and inhabit sets (based in personal domestic setting). D. Bradley Muir considers incipient nostalgias of parked camper trailers but he offsets these placid images with fragmented landscape details.