Public Art Registry
Present Presence
Photo: City of Vancouver
Untitled by Lauren Crazybull - photo by City of Vancouver
Cambie Street & Marine Drive
Marine Drive Canada Line Station
Civic
2023
Digitally printed onto adhesive vinyl
Two-dimensional artwork
In place
Platforms: Nine Places for Seeing
Description of work

PlatformsNine Places for Seeing is a series of temporary public art projects that presented from June 2023 until the end of 2025.

PlatformsNine Places for Seeing commissioned 21 local xʷməθkʷəy̓əm (Musqueam), sḵwx̱wú7mesh (Squamish), səlilwətaɬ (Tsleil-Waututh), and urban Indigenous artists. 

Selected artworks were displayed on the following platforms: 

  • Billboards along 6th Avenue between Arbutus and Fir 
  • Light box at šxʷƛ̓ exən Xwtl’a7shn Plaza  
  • Banners at Vancouver Public Library, Central Branch  
  • Glass wall at City Centre Canada Line Station  
  • Transit shelter posters throughout the city 
  • VanLive! video screen, Robson St and Granville St 
  • Glass wall at Marine Drive Canada Line Station 
  • Windows at the Queen Elizabeth Theatre 
  • Windows at the Vancouver Playhouse 
  • Glass Wall at Olympic Village Canada Line Station
  • Glass Wall at King Edward Canada Line Station
Artist statement

Untitled was exhibited on the Marine Drive Canada Line Station from June 2023 - June 2024.

Lauren Crazybull writes about her work: “What relationship do Indigenous people have to the eternal? At some point, it was predicted that Indigenous people were disappearing and would live on only in anthropological representations—ones that quantified and measured us and left us forever in a state of romanticization. Indigenous complexity was often erased in these portrayals. Temporally we are expected to represent a time that precedes us. My painted portraits have been a way to establish Indigenous presence in a way that places us firmly in the present, to look forward to our futures. The people embodied within this artwork are Indigenous, belonging to these lands and spanning across to my home, the prairies. Thank you Elijah, Taryn, Xwalacktun, Mom, and Jordan for being a part of this work.”

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