BOMBHEAD Lecture Series: Michael Love
Michael Love will be giving a talk in conjunction with The Bombhead Exhibition at the Kelowna Art Gallery. Bombhead is a travelling exhibition curated by John O'Brian and was first exhibited at the Vancouver Art Gallery in the Spring of 2018.
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BOMBHEAD Lecture Series: Michael Love
Thursday, July 8, 2021 | 6 to 7 pm
The Aesthetics of Peril
Join Michael Love, Vancouver-based artist and photographer, for an engaging presentation entitled 鈥淭he Aesthetics of Peril鈥.
Using his archive of large-format photographs, Love will trace the legacy of the Cold War conflict beginning with a look here at home in Canada. His body of work started by looking at Canada鈥檚 decommissioning of military sites, which increased after the fall of the Berlin wall in 1989. His work has expanded to highlight locations throughout Eastern Europe, including Canadian NATO bases in Germany, the Artek International Children鈥檚 Camp, situated on the Crimean peninsula (northern coast of the Black Sea), and the thousands of 鈥減illbox鈥 military bunkers of Albania, among others.
Through his photos, viewers (and Zoom attendees) are able to get an intimate look at these military/industrial sites and to reflect on the politics of the times that lead to their construction.