Marian Penner Bancroft, Two Places at Once, 1983 (BG4854 installation view). Photo: Michael R. Barrick.

Artwork

Two Places at Once

Artist/Creator: Marian Penner Bancroft (Artist)
Date: 1983
ID #: BG4854

Physical Description

Medium: gelatin silver print
Support: paper
Dimensions: 40.6 cm 76.2 cm (Object)
Object Description: Marian Penner Bancroft's Two Places at Once is concerned with the role of landscape in history and imagination. The photographs are place-fragments from Bancroft’s dreams about the past and its uneasy associations with cultural meanings to place and one’s position in it. Both an artist book and part of Bancroft’s four-part project, Transfigured Wood, Two Places at Once considers patriarchal and colonial histories through economic, educational and institutional lenses.

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, 2016
Related Exhibitions: Start Somewhere Else: Works from the Collection
Melancholy Bay: Images of English Bay, Burrard Inlet and Howe Sound from the Collection

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