Version sub rip – Sydney Hart

Press Release
The Maillardville Cultural Appreciation Society is pleased to present an exhibition of new work by Sydney Hart. Investigating the influence of the dissemination of digital images on the perception of space, Hart’s work looks to the role that related media play in both extending and undermining institutional power structures. In this exhibition, he draws from both the social and physical landscapes of Maillardville to address the political and cultural forces shaping it, such as its French Canadian history and its industrial past. Version Sub Rip notably investigates the role of language as a delineating boundary both within the physical world and in psychological space. Through an architectural installation, props and optical illusions, the exhibition reconfigures the scale and perspective of markers of place, destabilizing mechanisms through which space is named and represented. Version Sub Rip takes place in Maillardville, on the traditional and unceeded territory of Indigenous Coast Salish Peoples, such as the Kwikwetlem, a traditionally hən̓q̓əmin̓əm̓-speaking First Nation.