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.

Placeholder by Ryley O’Byrne is a digital and photo collage exhibited on the billboard at Helmcken near Granville (November 9 to December 7, 2020).

Since the pandemic O'Byrne has been working on a project documenting touch, intimacy, and loss through text and images. Interested in how the world has had to shift and expand methods of communicating, the artist captures this curious and complicated space where technology and humanity blend.