Sara Graham Fata Morgana
Fata Morgana:
a type of mirage, that produces multiple overlapping images that actively change and distort creating the deceptive appearance of distant objects.
SARA GRAHAM Fata Morgana
October 7 - November 1, 2024
Vancouver, BC Canada
Elissa Cristall /projects
Vancouver, BC Canada
604.730.9611
© artoffice.ca
The work that I have been developing over the last twenty-seven years has been primarily concerned with issues and ideas that surround and make up the contemporary city. One of my central activities is exploring different ways and means to transform a viewer’s perception of “place” using forms of architecture, forms of storytelling, forms of mapping or all or any of the above.
Fata Morgana is a new body of work about Vancouver that is inspired by Cedric Price, a British architect, particularly his notion of movement in architecture, despite the contradiction of immobility of built forms. His visionary thinking contributed to the development of new philosophies about architecture, time, and space within the city and influenced many young architects.
I have had long term fascinated with the notion of movement in a fixed structure. I have used collage’s characteristics of disruption and distortion to confuse the positive and negative space within the picture plane to try and create optical movement. This exhibition brings together 10 years of my studio practice and my observations of the city. These works are informed by my daily observations of the urban form, and how spaces and places interpolate as one moves through them, where points of views are constantly shifting and revealing new perspectives.
Sara Graham, 2024
Fata Morgana [Burrard Bridge Harbour]
2024
LJT Print mounted on aluminum
Edition of 3
40" x 50" (101.6 x 127 cm)
$3200 CAD
Fata Morgana [Pan Pacific Downtown]
2024
LJT Print mounted on aluminum
Edition of 3
35" x 41" (89 x 104 cm)
$2700 CAD
Fata Morgana [YVR Control Harbout Tower]
2024
LJT Print mounted on aluminum
Edition of 3
30" x 30" (76.2 x 76.2 cm)
$2200 CAD
Fata Morgana [Waterfront Sunset]
2024
LJT Print mounted on aluminum
Edition of 3
46" x 60" (116.8 x 152 cm)
$3600 CAD
Fata Morgana [Waterfront Harbour]
2024
LJT Print mounted on aluminum
Edition of 3
28" x 38" (71 x 96.5 cm)
$2400 CAD
Fata Morgana [YVR Pier]
2024
LJT Print mounted on aluminum Edition of 3
39" x 60" (99 x 152 cm)
$3400 CAD
Fata Morgana [Waterfront Dusk]
2024
LJT Print mounted on aluminum Edition of 3
24" x 39" (61 x 99 cm)
$2300 CAD
Installation photo: Byron Dauncey
Sara Graham is a Canadian artist currently living in Port Moody BC. She grew up in Ottawa and received an MFA, University of Guelph (2006) and a BFA, Nova Scotia College of Art and Design (1997). Graham takes a cross-disciplinary approach to her practice, often employing the methods and materials of architecture and city planning. Her work proposes alternative ways of looking at the city and its parts. Using the real to construct the imagined. The results range from paper, sculpture, photography, to large scale public artworks. Her work is in public collections across Canada. Graham was commissioned to create a public artwork for the Gordie Howe International Bridge connecting Windsor Ontario and Detroit Michigan set to open in 2025.
Fata Morgana was curated by Elissa Cristall for an exhibition presented at the Pendulum Gallery, Vancouver, Canada. © artoffice.ca division of Elissa Cristall Galleries Ltd., © Sara Graham ELISSA CRISTALL /projects (604) 730-9611 info@artoffice.ca www.artoffice.ca