Gallery 44 at Vancouver Art Book Fair

Vancouver Art Book Fair

Roundhouse Community Arts & Recreation Centre - 181 Roundhouse Mews

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Gallery 44 will have a table at the Vancouver Art Book Fair, with a variety of Gallery 44-produced publications, editions and catalogues.

Free and open to the public, Vancouver Art Book Fair is a multi-day celebration of artists’ publishing featuring over one hundred local, national and international publishers, as well as a diverse line-up of programs, performances and artists’ projects. Featured exhibitors produce everything from books, magazines, zines and printed ephemera to digital, performative or other experimental forms of publication.

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Gallery 44 Table Highlights: 

‍A Landscape Photograph in the Land of the Dead is the second volume in the Writer-in-Residence book series, featuring essays and artwork by Nic Wilson.Wilson's collection examines the complexities of how images operate, their metadata and the bizarre and occult machinations of photography itself. The 124-page publication debuts the new essay, “Somewhere Yet Unknown,” and features an interview between curator Lillian O’Brien Davis and Nic Wilson, annotated by curator, writer and interdisciplinary artist, Blair Fornwald.

Swimming up a Dark Tunnel features essays by writer and curator Letticia Cosbert Miller published through Gallery 44’s 2020/21 Writer-in-Residence program.  Cosbert Miller explores the subject of water to draw in many of her interests, including Classics, and the writings of Dionne Brand and Toni Morrison to name just a few. The essays explore water as a historical and political site. Public pools, swimwear, migration across water that is forced, willing and unwilling. The beach is an intersection for bikini clad vacationers and displaced refugees. The sea is a boundary or portal where Poseidon dwells in the depths, along with the victims of the Middle Passage. Cosbert Miller brings all these intersections together and threads personal experience as well as pop culture references throughout all four essays.

the air we breathe a fundraising edition by Christina Battle. Produced as a prelude to the air we breathe, Battle's January, 2023 exhibition explores the complexities of air pollution, weaving together themes of environmental catastrophe, cultural and political strife, conspiracy and the various links between.

Various catalogues from past Main Gallery exhibitions including an essay from a guest writer delving into the exhibition's themes and images of the work.