RAPHAËL ZARKA - ALLIANCE FRANÇAISE VANCOUVER

Paris based artist Raphaël Zarka and Vancouver’s Cameron Kerr both make art that mines the histories of modern art and design. Addressing our contemporary urban and rural environments, they draw attention to an allegorical conflict between nature and culture as well as architecture and bodies. Both artists employ materials natural to British Columbia ranging from marble and cedar from Vancouver Island to salvaged Douglas Fir from the mainland of B.C.. In their work we also find a shared interest in pedestrian speech acts such as skateboarding. It was this impulse that initially brought the two artists together in the exhibition Out of Control: The Concrete Art of Skateboarding for Whistler’s Audain Art Museum in 2022/23 — a major exhibition addressing the intersection between art and skateboarding.