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Laiwan: Set of Film Prints, Special Edition

Item Number
104
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Item Description

A set of disposable camera prints by Laiwan! Presented in a special edition format created by the artist.

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LAIWAN is an interdisciplinary artist, writer and educator with a wide-ranging practice based in poetics and philosophy. Born in Zimbabwe of Chinese parents, her family immigrated to Canada in 1977 to leave the war in apartheid Rhodesia. Her art training began at the Emily Carr College of Art & Design (1983), and she returned to academia to receive an MFA from Simon Fraser University School for Contemporary Arts (1999). Recipient of numerous awards, including the 2023 VIVA Award, 2021 Emily Award from Emily Carr University, recent Canada Council and BC Arts Council Awards, and the 2008 Vancouver Queer Media Artist Award, Laiwan served on numerous arts juries, exhibits regularly, curates projects in Canada, the US, and Zimbabwe, is published in anthologies and journals, was Chair of the grunt gallery Board of Directors from 2010 to 2014, and taught for twenty years at the MFA in Interdisciplinary Arts Program at Goddard College (VT/WA, USA). She is based on the unceded ancestral territories of the Musqueam, Squamish, and Tsleil-Waututh First Nations and currently works in the Department of Decolonization, Arts and Culture at the Vancouver Park Board.

www.laiwanette.net

Image description: a collaged image featuring a Chinese-Canadian woman with short cropped dark hair, wearing circular wire framed glasses and a black t-shirt. She is standing in a garden backgrounded by flower and shrubs and is looking to the left of the frame as if focusing on the beauty around her. At the bottom is an Ilford brand disposable camera and two manila envelopes, one with a large black question mark on its front.

Photo by Nina Skogster.