2938 Fraser Street, rear entrance

Vancouver, BC, V5T 3W1
Cinema

Katayoon Yousefbigloo
​until 6 December, by appointment only

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This new space by Unit 17 is dedicated to moving image, a longtime dream of the gallery to produce site-specific installations surrounding this material in an environment that is much more domestic than our usual gallery contexts. The space is built out as a more committed social space, with a coffee bar and stocked mini fridge, as well as snacks, with a slow rotation of presentations throughout the calendar year. Currently, three works are on view by Vancouver artist & musician Katayoon Yousefbigloo from 2022 that look to structures of encasement either by social authority and other technological devices. 

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Katayoon Yousefbigloo is an interdisciplinary artist and musician. Through video, music, writing and visual art, she examines how media shapes our mythologies. Reverse engineering cultural narratives, she uses speculative fiction as a framework through which to imagine alternate realities and their commercial potentials. Unrelatedly, she is pursuing franchise opportunities for her musical project Puzzlehead. Katayoon received a MFA from the School of Contemporary Arts at SFU, Vancouver.

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List of works, clockwise: 

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CHESSMAN HAZARD CODE CHANGE HOUSEHOLD, 2022video (1:25) on rear-view mirror video monitor

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The Blue Fence (Around Oppenheimer Park), 2022mini DV video with sound, 8m7sSound design by Dave Biddle

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Stick/Kansas City, 2022

8.5 x 11" inkjet print, plastic, painter's tape, dimensions variable

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