Photo: City of Vancouver
Ovoid Destroyer - photo by City of Vancouver
Civic
2025
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

Ovoid Destroyer was exhibited on the Vanlive! video screen at the corner of Granville and Robson. Various times throughout the day with a dedicated showing at 12 noon, daily from Month/Year until March 16, 2025.

From the droplets by which these motions themselves are formed, this “Space Invader” inspired animation seeks the spatial territories of which it witnesses and protects. In understanding the amalgamation of internationally renowned aesthetics that compile “The Pacific Northwest Coast” do we realize the distances between invitation and occupation. Since time immemorial crescents, trigonals, and circles have been part of the visual sovereignty of our greater Xwelmewx territories, so too does the Ovoid Destroyer arrive to ensure the same. 

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