Common Thread Exhibition
I am very happy to announce the Common Thread exhibition, an initiative of Seven25. Design & Typography. and is co-curated with Xavier Encinas.
Common Thread is a poster exhibition whose primary goal is to explore how identity is influenced by one’s emotional ties with a certain country.
Populations are more mobile than ever before and birth in a particular country no longer determines where one might live or settle. This means that the notion of us and them and the awareness of otherness might be more prevalent.
Why, when moving to a new country, do we often gravitate towards people of similar backgrounds and ethnic or national origin? Are we defined by where we are born, where we grow up, where we choose to live, by the language we speak or other notions that affect belonging and identity? Where do our values come from? When we think of home—and all that this entails in terms of emotion, memory and connectedness—where is that place?
We’ve invited 20 renowned and up-and-coming designers from around the world to offer their own answers and give them form: Andreas Banderas, David Carvalho, Eva Tatcheva, Frank Philippin, Frauke Stegmann, Guido Callarelli, Harel Schreiber, Henrik Kubel, Hyperkit, Isabelle Swiderski, Jaime Barrett, Michael Cina, Olga Norman, Sanjit Fernandes+Bakshi, Setareh Shamdani, Silke Klinnert, Silnt, Simon Svärd, Xavier Encinas, Marcus Eriksson and Folch Studio.
7–17 October 2009
Private view 7 October 2009, 6:00 pm
Screening of “Freedom on the Fence”
9 October 2009, 6:30 pm
—Q&A with producer Andrea Marks after the screening
Emily Carr University of Design + Art
Concourse Gallery (North Building)
Granville Island Campus
1399 Johnston Street
Vancouver, BC V6H 3R9
(604) 844-3800
Awesome!