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Valerie Durant | East West, Capture Photography Festival 2018

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Valerie Durant
Valerie Durant

East West explores interrelationships within the everyday, mostly urban environment, observing markings, cultural symbols, iconic objects, and imagery related to urban development.

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Lost and Found Cafe & Gallery

Opening Reception | Saturday, April 7, 2018 12–3pm

Artist Talk | Tuesday, April 17, 12:30-1:30pm


Part of the Capture Photography Festival, alumna Valerie Durant's exhibition, East West, explores interrelationships within the everyday, mostly urban environment, observing markings, cultural symbols, iconic objects, and imagery related to urban development.

Construction hoarding and parcel identifiers are largely recognized as signifiers of impending change, and the bulldozer, which knows no distinction, blurs the boundaries between east and west, inverting our perception of above and below and subject and object relationships.

The works transcend the local topic to explore universal themes of history, memory, loss, and transformation and our deeply rooted interconnectedness with land and the environment.

Valerie Durant is an interdisciplinary artist who lives and works in Vancouver. She received her BFA (2002) from Emily Carr University She holds an MA in Planning (2012) from the University of Pretoria, South Africa.

In 2009, she completed The Face of Africa Along the Road, a solo photography exhibition and cultural engagement partnership with the International Organization of Migration (IOM). The collaboration with the One Africa campaign addressed issues on the topics of migration and xenophobia in South Africa. As a planner she has worked on International Climate Change and Water Resource Management and Federal Infrastructure Projects as well as Housing and Social Infrastructure Planning with the City of Vancouver.

She was a receipient of a 2003 Canada Council grant for new media, co-curated and conceptualized Out of the Rain: A Project for Homelessness, and her work is held in private and public collections locally and internationally including at the Surrey Art Gallery.

Her MA thesis, Sustainable Urban Agriculture and Forestation: The Edible Connected City provides a vision for Cities to reduce climate impacts and be the source of much of their own food supply.