Rebecca Belmore & Osvaldo Yero
Sculptural installation
In a unique sculptural collaboration, Rebecca Belmore and Osvaldo Yero will use ice to make a new artwork that will melt over the duration of the long sleepless night of Nuit Blanche. The large block of ice signifies a life-size form, the body absent, as evidence that it too will disappear. This work symbolically suggests the frozen land of Canada in winter. To be left outside for too long is to die.
last seen alive in police custody
under the influence
found 5 days later frozen to death in a field
wearing one shoe
marks on his body likely caused by handcuffs
aboriginal teenage boy
dropped off and walking to where?
In memory of Neil Stonechild (1973-1990)
Rebecca Belmore (Anishinabekwe), who represented Canada at the 2005 Venice Biennale has long been creating work about the plight of the disenfranchised and marginalized in society. In her poignant and dramatic performances, the artist's own body becomes the site of historical, cultural and political investigations as she explores self and community, boundaries between public and private, chaos and linear narrative.
Osvaldo Yero (Cuban-Canadian) is best known for dealing with the vernacular culture and political climate of his homeland by incorporating emblems of religion, sexuality, nationalistic crests and symbols in his work with irony and affection.
Rebecca Belmore and Osvaldo Yero live and work in Vancouver.
In association with Royal Car Wash.
Image: Rebecca Belmore, Fountain, 2005. Production Still
Photo credit: José Ramón González.
Map location 5
Royal Car Wash, 1106 Queen Street West
