A photographic artist and a couple of hundred people she recruited are spreading powerful words through a unique and innovative art exhibit. Love is a Many Splendoured Thing will open in Vancouver’s downtown core this June with a message that aims to counter negativity, hatred and fear in today’s world.
Artist Jasna Stojanovic (Yasna Stoyanovich) —a Vancouver-based people, product and fine art photographer —has created a multi-channel video installation using individual portraits of 200 participants of diverse ages and backgrounds who, using American Sign Language, express the words from the project’s title phrase. The changing images will run non-stop on six screens throughout the course of the exhibit. Each screen represents one word from the title and communicates a message of core human values in an intriguing way.
The exhibition is open to the public from Monday, May 31 until Saturday, June 12 at the Pendulum Gallery located in the main lobby of the HSBC Building at 885 West Georgia Street in downtown Vancouver. There will be a reception event on Thursday, June 3 from 7 p.m. to 9 p.m.
The opening event, through a cash bar, will raise funds for BC Cultural Society of the Deaf’s Deaf Canada Conference 2010, and Stand Tall Education Network, a non-profit organization that provides education to children from poverty backgrounds in Kampala, Uganda.
The installation will be running on 6 TVs non-stop during the first two weeks of June. It will be visible from the outside of the HSBC building which means that you will be able to see the show even if you are just passing by the corner of Hornby and Georgia Street anytime during the first two weeks of June.
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