Platforms 2020: Public Works is a monthly series of temporary public art projects that presented from June 2020 until the end of December 2020.

These artworks were selected through an open call inviting Vancouver-based artists to share projects that they have been working on that respond to the circumstances of living during a pandemic and critical time of change.

The public art program was launched on transit shelters, billboards, and video screens throughout the city.

Sunroop Kaur’s painting Biogenesis of She (2019) presented on transit shelters throughout the city from November 2nd to 29th, 2020.

This painting is a self-portrait of the artist both nurturing and in turn being sustained by plants in a transitory space between the domestic and outdoors. Kaur’s painting examines the simulations of “real” nature and our primordial desire to both cultivate plants inside our home and be surrounded by nature.