Reece Terris: Like a Bridge

August 30 – October 25, 2021

In the summer of 2006, Reece Terris started constructing a wooden bridge to link his home to the house next door on McSpadden Avenue in East Vancouver. By the early fall, the framed arch sculpture made of 2” x 4” lumber measuring 37’ long and 36’ high was completed. This installation connected Terris’s upper balcony with his neighbour’s deck on the second floor. The resulting structure was beautiful in form, while fully functional with rope handrails.

Like a Bridge featured Terris’s five large format photographs of semi-circular bridge installation, as well as a scale model. According to Terris, this series of works was “less about the bridge, but more about the space in between. The houses were so close to each other and by connecting them in the air, that space in between highlighted the ideology of the property line and real estate values.”

In a sense, Terris’s constructions were both conceptual and physical interventions, which temporarily connected two neighbouring properties in the sky and allowed an unusual perspective on the world below.