Capture Photography Festival exhibits returns to SkyTrain stations
Capture Photography Festival exhibits returns to SkyTrain stations
If you’ve taken the SkyTrain recently, you may have noticed captivating new public art installations at the Expo Line’s Stadium–Chinatown Station, and select Canada Line stations between Waterfront and Richmond–Brighouse!
TransLink is once again teaming up with the Capture Photography Festival, running from April 3 to 30, and installing a public art piece on our SkyTrain system. Public art is a key element to creating a welcoming environment, encourages community connections and encourages gathering places which help reduce crime and vandalism.
This year’s temporary installation at Stadium–Chinatown Station is called Qimash by interdisciplinary artist Durrah Alsaif, a Kwantlen Polytechnic University graduate:
In Qimash, Alsaif investigates [the blurring of lines between culture, tradition, and religion in the Middle East], which is considered culturally taboo in her home country [Saudi Arabia]. Initially taking place as a performance and now reformatted as a series of photographs designed for a public artwork, Qimash explores the symbolic action of adorning oneself with the Islamic religious garment worn by women—the hijab—while her performance juxtaposes ownership of cultural identity with absurdity, discomfort, and immobility. Through this cumulative gesture, Alsaif urges us to consider the symbolic weight of the hijab and its nuanced significance to the individual women that wear them.
Qimash will be on display at the station until March 31, 2019. It replaces Alinka Echeverría‘s Precession of the Feminine, which was installed as part of last year’s Capture Photography Festival.
On the Canada Line, work from ten different artists are being featured at Waterfront, Vancouver City Centre, Olympic Village, Broadway–City Hall, King Edward, Marine Drive, Bridgeport, Aberdeen, Lansdowne and Richmond–Brighouse stations. They will be on display until September 1, 2018.
Visit capturephotofest.com/public-installations to learn more about the Capture Photography Festival’s public art installations!
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Please, please, please take them down. These photos are really disturbing the whole community of muslim women in Vancouver, but we just don’t what we can do to persuade the transit authorities to take them down.
Hijab is our identity as a Muslim woman. In a free country like Canada we have chosen to wear it.
Even if the photographer didn’t have bad intentions in creating these disturbing photos, they definitely have the implication of illustrating Hijab as something that has been imposed upon us. This so sad.
They have been there long enough. Please take the necessary measures to remove the photo.