Torhamvan/Ferryland, 2005

Torhamvan/Ferryland, an installation  at Vancouver’s Contemporary Art Gallery, presents what the Gallery’s curator Jenifer Papararo has characterized as “something between spectacle and documentary”. With respect to its “documentary” aspects, the installation records the present-day site of the 1926 shipwreck of the S.S. Torhamvan at Ferryland, Newfoundland. The “spectacle” fills the gallery, with large, complex wood and canvas constructions flooded with blue light and presenting an illusion somewhat akin Baroque “perspectiva” constructions. Please click on an image below to view a larger version.

Funding for this project was provided through a Research/Creation grant from the Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada and from Thompson Rivers University’s Scholarly
Activity Fund.