Untitled

Artist/Creator: Brian Jungen (Artist)
Date: 1997
ID #: BG1837

Physical Description

Medium: ink
Support: paper
Dimensions: 35.7 cm 27.1 cm (Object)
Object Description: Two posts with signs: "FIRST NATION" and "SECOND NATURE."

Brian Jungen's work reflects a history of Indigenous cultural assimilation into western society, addressing complex relationships between Indigenous and global cultures through the juxtaposition of cultural signifiers. These drawings were made while Jungen shared a studio on East Hastings Street with artist Geoffrey Farmer, and came out of a moment when he was thinking through issues of systemic racism, poverty and queerness in Vancouver’s Downtown Eastside. He would regularly wheat-paste these drawings onto boarded-up shop windows in the neighbourhood; in 1997, two of the Untitled works were exhibited at the Or Gallery where Jungen applied them directly onto the gallery wall.

History

Collection: Morris and Helen Belkin Art Gallery Permanent Collection
Credit Line: Purchased with support from the Canada Council for the Arts Acquisition Assistance program and the Morris and Helen Belkin Foundation, 1998
Related Exhibitions: Start Somewhere Else: Works from the Collection

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