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PRESS RELEASE<\/span><\/b><\/p>\n

First Look: 2027 Capture Photography Festival Previews Three
\nLandmark Featured Projects Ahead of Full Program Announcement<\/b>
\n<\/span><\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n

From an internationally renowned Cree artist to a Guggenheim Fellow,
\nWestern Canada’s largest lens-based art festival shares three featured projects
\nahead of its full program announcement in February
\n<\/i><\/b><\/span><\/p>\n

Vancouver, BC<\/b> \u2014 <\/span>Capture Photography Festival<\/b>, Western Canada\u2019s largest celebration of <\/span>lens-based art,<\/span> today announces three significant projects as part of its 14th annual edition, taking place <\/span>April 1\u201330, 2027<\/b>. Founded in 2013 to celebrate the legacy of Vancouver\u2019s internationally renowned photographers, Capture connects Vancouver to the world throug<\/span>h lens-based art<\/span> in public spaces, galleries, and museums across the city. This year\u2019s featured projects bring together local, national, and international artists in a new public artwork at the BC Hydro Dal Grauer Substation, a rotating billboard series at the GreyChurch public art installation site at Fraser Street and East 15th Avenue, and a group exhibition at Pendulum Gallery, inviting audiences to consider how images are made, circulated, and remembered.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

\u201cWe are thrilled to announce this first look at three accessible art projects as part of Capture\u2019s 2027 festival programming,\u201d says <\/span>Emmy Lee Wall<\/b>, Executive Director and Chief Curator of Capture Photography Festival. \u201cSince its inception, Capture\u2019s vision has been to connect Vancouver to the world through photography and film, which bears a unique capacity to share someone\u2019s singular perspective. Through Joi T. Arcand\u2019s tender portrait of kinship, Carrie Schneider\u2019s examination of three renowned women under our constant gaze, and the seven local and international artists of our commissioned group exhibition, <\/span>Embodying Archives<\/span><\/i>, who reinterpret historical archives through a personalized, embodied lens, we invite audiences to experience a sense of discovery and explore different points of view as they interact with these larger-than-life works on public display across Vancouver.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n

The full festival program, including the Capture Photography Festival Speaker Series, artist talks, film screenings, and participating exhibitions and tours, will be announced in February 2027.<\/b><\/p>\n

The 2027 Capture Photography Festival featured projects include:<\/span><\/p>\n

Joi T. Arcand: <\/b>Party Line
\n<\/i><\/b>BC Hydro Dal Grauer Substation Public Art Project
\n<\/b>April 2027 \u2013 March 2028 | 944 Burrard Street<\/b><\/p>\n

Curated by Emmy Lee Wall, Joi T. Arcand\u2019s <\/span>Party Line<\/span><\/i> (2027) is a new public artwork drawn from the Muskeg Lake Cree Nation artist\u2019s childhood memory of a shared telephone line between her home and her k\u00f4hkom\u2019s. While taught not to eavesdrop, snippets of laughter and gossip spoken between Arcand\u2019s k\u00f4hkom and her friends in their n\u00eahiyaw\u00eawin language were captured, cementing a sense of identity and belonging. Today, the party line has become group chats\u2013\u2013a different kind of lifeline that sustains relationships and language across geography.<\/span><\/p>\n

In <\/span>Party Line<\/span><\/i> (2027), a pair of hands simultaneously answer and end a call. Suspended between these gestures, there\u2019s trepidation and a realization that they are interrupting the very connection they long to maintain. Blurring the line between lived memory and manufactured nostalgia, <\/span>Party Line<\/span><\/i> reflects the everyday rituals of communication that sustain kinship, memory, and n\u00eahiyaw\u00eawin across generations and technological shifts.<\/span><\/p>\n

Joi T. Arcand (b. 1982, Muskeg Lake Cree Nation, SK) is an internationally renowned n\u0113hiyaw artist who lives and works in Ottawa, ON. Her practice reclaims and indigenizes public space through the use of n\u0113hiyaw\u0113win and cahkip\u0113hikana. She was shortlisted for the Sobey Art Award in 2018, has exhibited at the National Gallery of Canada, the National Gallery of Victoria Triennial and the Busan Museum of Contemporary Art, and received the Ohpinamake Award for Indigenous artists in 2024. The BC Hydro Dal Grauer Substation Public Art Project is generously supported by Presthaya Fixter and Conrad Whelan.<\/span><\/p>\n

Carrie Schneider: <\/b>Veronica
\n<\/i><\/b>GreyChurch Billboard Public Art Project
\n<\/b>March 13, 2027 \u2013 March 5, 2028 | Corner of Fraser Street and East 15th Avenue<\/b><\/p>\n

Veronica<\/span><\/i> is a rotating exhibition of three photographs that feature the faces of iconic women, each drawn from a recent 16mm film by New York-based artist Carrie Schneider, and curated by Emmy Lee Wall. By presenting images of women writ large in the public sphere, Schneider reclaims the power of the feminine face and asks how a woman might maintain autonomy and control when her persona is the subject of public consumption.<\/span><\/p>\n

The public art project will open on March 13, 2027 with a photographic still from Schneider\u2019s <\/span>Sphinx (The Answer Isn\u2019t Man), <\/span><\/i>2023, featuring 316 stills of French and Austrian actress Romy Schneider staring directly into the camera from the 1974 film <\/span>L\u2019Important C\u2019est d\u2019Aimer<\/span><\/i>. Beginning July 17, 2027, the project will feature a still from Schneider\u2019s <\/span>I don\u2019t know her<\/span><\/i>, 2023, which features Mariah Carey in a viral 2003 German television interview, shaking and nodding her head as she refuses the reporter\u2019s line of questioning. The project will conclude with its third iteration from November 13, 2027 \u2013 March 5, 2028 of a still from Schneider\u2019s <\/span>First Living Woman<\/span><\/i>, 2026, featuring French translator, filmmaker, and actress H\u00e9l\u00e8ne Ch\u00e2telain awakening as \u201cThe Woman\u201d in Chris Marker\u2019s 1962 film <\/span>La Jet\u00e9e<\/span><\/i>.<\/span><\/p>\n

Carrie Schneider (b. 1979, Chicago, IL) lives and works between Brooklyn and Hudson, NY. Her solo exhibitions include MASS MoCA (2023), the California Museum of Photography (2015) and the Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago (2009), and her work is held in the collections of The Art Institute of Chicago and the Minneapolis Institute of Art, among others. She was awarded a Guggenheim Fellowship in 2024, and her monumental one-kilometre work was included in the 61st La Biennale di Venezia, In Minor Keys, in 2026. The GreyChurch Billboard is generously supported by Jane Irwin and Ross Hill.<\/span><\/p>\n

Embodying Archives
\n<\/i><\/b>Featured Exhibition at Pendulum Gallery
\nMarch 29 \u2013 April 30, 2027 | Pendulum Gallery, 885 W Georgia Street<\/strong><\/p>\n

Featuring works by local, national, and international artists, <\/span>Embodying Archives<\/span><\/i> focuses on the ways artists expand and inhabit the spaces between history, memory, and place to discern what is remembered and forgotten beyond the bounds of institutional structures. In <\/span>Embodying Archives<\/span><\/i>, participating artists interact directly with institutional archives to reclaim cultural agency, imagine stories that have been historically silenced, and reinterpret the notion of official records as a means of resisting the systems that seek to classify, categorize, and dominate society\u2019s understanding of knowledge and history.<\/span><\/p>\n

The exhibition includes works by: multidisciplinary artist <\/span>Nour Bishouty<\/b>, whose work attends to fragmentation in history; Vancouver-based artist <\/span>Stephanie Gagne<\/b>, whose work explores the relationship between memory and collective narratives, with an emphasis on the role of media in shaping personal experience; German-American artist <\/span>Francesca Hummler<\/b>, who explores identity, the archive, and generational trauma through photo therapy; Montreal-based and Algonquin member of the Kitigan Zibi Anishinaabeg First Nation, <\/span>Nadia Myre<\/b>, whose beadwork-based practice explores identity, language, longing and loss; Belgian-Cameroonian artist <\/span>Mallory Lowe Mpoka<\/b>, whose multidisciplinary practice explores place, memory, and environmental colonialism; Oakland-based Filipina-American artist\u00a0 <\/span>Stephanie Syjuco<\/b>, whose research-driven projects attempt to reframe and \u201ctalk back\u201d to the archive; and London-based deaf British Mauritian visual artist <\/span>Sabrina Tirvengadum<\/b>, who explores identity, diaspora, and colonial legacies through hidden and silenced histories.<\/span><\/p>\n

Embodying Archives<\/span><\/i> is organized by Capture Photography Festival and co-curated by Emmy Lee Wall, Executive Director and Chief Curator, and Anna Luth, Assistant Curator.<\/span><\/p>\n

About Capture Photography Festival (<\/b>capturephotofest.com<\/b><\/a>)
\n<\/b><\/span>Launched in 2013, Capture Photography Festival is Western Canada\u2019s largest lens-based art festival. Held annually in April, lens-based art is exhibited at dozens of galleries and other venues throughout Metro Vancouver, alongside an extensive public art program, and an events program that spans tours, films, artist talks, and community events. Capture\u2019s vision is to connect Vancouver to the world through lens-based art. We aim to connect communities and to incite meaningful dialogue between artists, curators, audiences, organizations, and institutions. Capture is committed to presenting perspectives from diverse backgrounds and members of underrepresented groups.<\/span><\/p>\n

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