Opening Reception and Book Launch: June 20, 6:30-9 pm Performance by My Name is Del: 8:30 pm
Kelly Lycan is a photo-based installation artist whose work investigates how objects and images are placed and displayed in the world, and the resulting cycle of value they experience. With a longstanding inquiry of repurposed and recontextualized interiors, objects and materials, her exhibition The Fireplace looks at a host of occupants in the once-residential space of the Burnaby Art Gallery, mediating between the world of objects and the absence of its former residents.
Lycan’s works reference past furniture, decorations and styles that have passed through the house along with its people. Offering new glimpses of the gallery/home through reconfiguration and drawing on her long history as a set decorator, The Fireplace is the staging of a home through the mythical conflation of time periods and stories, set in the present day.
The opening reception will also celebrate the launch of the publication Kelly Lycan | The Fireplace, an artist’s book featuring texts by Anne Low and Jennifer Cane, created on the occasion of the exhibition. Copies of the publication will be available for purchase.
