Physical Description
- Medium
- baseball cap
- Support
- –
- Dimensions
- 10 cm 18.5 cm 29 cm (Object)
- Object Description
- Part of backpacker, an archive project, Lee Plested, 2002.
Claudia Cuesta’s Culture Cap (2002) questions who culture belongs to. Originally made in conjunction with the exhibition Taste (2002) at the Helen Pitt Gallery in Vancouver, Culture Cap later became part of Lee Plested’s curatorial project Backpacker (2002), where Plested collected small artworks from 18 Canadian artists to fit into a hiking backpack. The works in Backpacker use the simple and vastly relatable language of everyday objects to ask questions about economy, culture and national identity in relation to artistic production. For Cuesta, the act of wearing these caps invites a democratization of art and a de-centring of institutional culture-making.
History
- Collection
- Morris and Helen Belkin Art Gallery Permanent Collection
- Credit Line
- Gift of John O'Brian, 2010
- Related Exhibitions
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