10.17.1992 | 11.25.1992
ELSPETH PRATT | ELSPETH PRATT

Vancouver artist Elspeth Pratt’s tenuous structures depend on a wall to hold them upright. The wall serves to confine them, then, playing on much the same role that language, bureaucracy and mass culture assume in our society. Historically, architecture’s formal expression has attempted to uphold and promote the values of existing patriarchal powers. Attributes such as vulnerability, fragility, and impermanence are marginalized. Pratt uses the low-cost materials of modern construction to create dysfunctional architectural objects which recount a personal allegory, one based on events which give shape to our individuality and therefore question the basis of this exclusion. This exhibition will be the eleventh in the gallery’s Continuum series, exploring aspects of Canadian sculpture.

Curator: Joan Stebbins
Organized by the Southern Alberta Art Gallery.