Corie Waugh

FutureLoss community dinner at grunt

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Photo-documentation of a community dinner hosted at the grunt gallery by curator Vanessa Kwan and artist Zoe Kreye for the project FutureLoss.

FutureLoss dinner @ Grunt by Corie Waugh

FutureLoss dinner @ grunt by Corie Waugh

Invitation:

“As a small thank you for your participation in FutureLoss, grunt gallery and Zoe Kreye invite you and a guest to share dinner with us:

Sunday, April 12th, 7pm

grunt gallery 116 – 350 E. 2nd Avenue

An informal dinner and drinks will be served and the final sculptures will be displayed!

* gluten-free, vegetarian and vegan options available – please let us know if you have dietary restrictions

Please RSVP by April 8th

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FutureLoss dinner @ Grunt by Corie Waugh

FutureLoss dinner @ grunt by Corie Waugh

“It was a very nice event, Vanessa Kwan tends to curate these incredibly thoughtful projects and they always surprise me, how much community can be created out of complete strangers.” Karlene Harvey

FutureLoss dinner @ Grunt by Corie Waugh

FutureLoss dinner @ grunt by Corie Waugh

Over the course of 12 weeks, Vancouver-based artist Zoe Kreye engaged directly with shopowners, organizers and residents in discussions around what it means to hold space in a shifting landscape. Space, on this strip and in this city, is currency, and Kreye’s practice reaches through the overarching narratives of real estate, gentrification and speculation to consider the poetics of an individual’s connection to place.

FutureLoss dinner @ Grunt by Corie Waugh

FutureLoss dinner @ grunt by Corie Waugh

Kreye met with participants in their own spaces, and worked with them to create discrete objects and impressions in plaster. These works – abstract, raw, wrinkled, angular – were combined to form a collective sculptural utterance, a statement from the community that is both abstract and earnest. Not quite documentary, but certainly infused with real bodies and things, FutureLoss is an evolving portrait of this neighbourhood, and this moment in time.

FutureLoss dinner @ Grunt by Corie Waugh

FutureLoss dinner @ grunt by Corie Waugh

Photo gallery of FutureLoss community participant dinner by Corie Waugh for VANDOCUMENT