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Photo: Gary Ouimet
Location
Robson/Granville Screens/CBC Plaza/VanCity Theatre
789 Granville, 700 Hamilton, 1181 Seymour
The artwork has been removed from this location.
Artist(s)
Jeremy Borsos
Artwork information
Program:
Civic
Installed:
2014
Primary materials
Video on digital screen
Type:
Media work
Status:
No longer in place
Owner:
City of Vancouver
Project:
Platforms: Art marking Vancouver's Year of Reconciliation
Learn More:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=a5Z2k43a ...
Description of work
1 minute digital video
Artist statement
We see words slowly formed in ink at the end of an old fashioned pen. These words were used by the Canadian Government as an apology to the First Nations peoples for the Residential School programme. The ancient pen represents the historical injustices at the same time as turning the viewer into the writer by carefully observing each word being formed. The chosen phrase tries to quantify the enormity of the numbers of First Nations peoples affected. It is graphic at the same time as being utterly unquantifiable.
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