Rebecca Belmore and Osvaldo Yero
Multidisciplinary artists Rebecca Belmore (Anishinabekwe) and Cuban-born artist Osvaldo Yero
currently live and work in Vancouver.
Rebecca Belmore, who represented Canada at the 2005 Venice Biennale has long been creating
work about the plight of the disenfranchised and marginalized in society. In her poignant and dramatic
performances, the artist's own body becomes the site of historical, cultural and political investigations
as she explores the world of ritual and community, boundaries between public and private, chaos and linear
narrative.
Osvaldo
Yero is best known for dealing with the vernacular culture and political climate of his homeland by incorporating
emblems of religion, sexuality, nationalistic crests and symbols in his work with irony and affection.
Rebecca Belmore [ biography ]
[ cv ]
[ website: The Canadian Art Database ]
[ contact ]
Osvaldo Yero [ biography ]
[ contact ]
Freeze, 2006
Sculptural installation
[ selected photographs ]
[ video ]
Royal Car Wash, 1106 Queen Street West
[In association with Royal Car Wash].
In a unique sculptural collaboration, Rebecca Belmore and Osvaldo Yero, used ice to make a new artwork
melted over the duration of the long sleepless night of Nuit Blanche. A large block of ice signified a
life-size form, the body absent, as evidence that it too will disappear. This work symbolically suggested
the frozen land of Canada in winter. To be left outside for too long is to die.
last seen alive in police custody
under the influence
found 5 days later frozen to death in a field
wearing one shoe
marks on his body likely caused by handcuffs
aboriginal teenage boy
dropped off and walking to where?
In memory of Neil Stonechild (1973-1990)
YOU ARE HERE [audio project by Lewis Kaye]
For the audio file for this site, please right-click the link below
and select "save target as (pc) /
download linked file (mac)".
Royal Car Wash (6.8 MB)
You Are Here instructions
1) Download each track to your personal computer
and add them to your favoured MP3 player software (e.g. iTunes, WinAmp, etc.) library.
2) Create a playlist specifically for Scotiabank Nuit Blanche,
and download this playlist to your portable MP3 player.
***Please note that while you can play the tracks on a normal stereo speaker system,
You Are Here is a binaural audio project specifically designed for personal stereos.
For full effect, each track should be listened to with headphones.
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