The Exchange Project
       
     
EX.003-1 (with Charlene Vickers)
       
     
EX.003-2 (with Charlene Vickers)
       
     
EX.041-1 (with Cameron Kerr)
       
     
EX.041-2 (with Cameron Kerr)
       
     
EX. 015-1 (with Mohammad Ghazali)
       
     
EX. 015-2 (with Mohammad Ghazali)
       
     
The Exchange Project
       
     
EX.003-1 and EX.003-2 (with Charlene Vickers)
       
     
EX.001-1 and EX.002-2 (with Michael Love)
       
     
EX.013-1 and EX.013-2 (with Ghazaleh Avarsamani)
       
     
EX.009-1 and EX.009-2 (with Ryan Peter)
       
     
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The Exchange Project

2016
Installation view, Polygon Gallery, North Vancouver

The Exchange Project interrogates the status, value, and conditions that define an art object, exploring how these elements are shaped by an artist’s declaration, institutional framing, and economic structures. Operating through a barter system, this program involves research into the practices of approximately one hundred contemporary artists, engaging each in critical dialogue and facilitating an exchange of artworks. Ultimately, The Exchange Project will comprise around one hundred diptych photographs of these exchanged works, forming an appropriated new body of work.

Inspired by André Malraux’s Le Musée Imaginaire (1947), which proposed that art history shifted from the museum to “that which can be photographed,” The Exchange Project uses Malraux’s diptych model to examine curatorial and artistic production as collaborative acts of assembling and contextualizing artworks. By adopting roles as artist, curator, and mediator, this project critically examines the conditions of contemporary artistic practice, questioning the structures, codes, and circulation patterns that influence meaning and value within the art system. Through its alternative economic framework, The Exchange Project reframes art as both product and exchange, generating a dialogue on the infrastructural conditions of art-making.

EX.003-1 (with Charlene Vickers)
       
     
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EX.003-1 (with Charlene Vickers)

2016
Archival Chromogenic C-print UV lamination, Dibond mount
34” x 30”

(this photo has been permanently modified)

EX.003-2 (with Charlene Vickers)
       
     
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EX.003-2 (with Charlene Vickers)

2016
Archival Chromogenic C-print UV lamination, Dibond mount
32” x 48”

EX.041-1 (with Cameron Kerr)
       
     
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EX.041-1 (with Cameron Kerr)

2017
Archival Chromogenic C-print with UV lamination, Dibond mount
30” x 24”

EX.041-2 (with Cameron Kerr)
       
     
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EX.041-2 (with Cameron Kerr)

2017
Archival Chromogenic C-print with UV lamination, Dibond mount
24” x 40”

EX. 015-1 (with Mohammad Ghazali)
       
     
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EX. 015-1 (with Mohammad Ghazali)

2015
Archival Chromogenic C-print with UV lamination, Dibond mount
36” x 50”

EX. 015-2 (with Mohammad Ghazali)
       
     
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EX. 015-2 (with Mohammad Ghazali)

2015
Archival Chromogenic C-print with UV lamination, Dibond mount
22” x 18”

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The Exchange Project

2016
Installation view
Institute for New Connotative Action, Seattle

EX.003-1 and EX.003-2 (with Charlene Vickers)
       
     
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EX.003-1 and EX.003-2 (with Charlene Vickers)

2016
Archival Chromogenic C-print with UV lamination, Dibond mount
32” x 48” (left)
34” x 30” (right)

EX.001-1 and EX.002-2 (with Michael Love)
       
     
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EX.001-1 and EX.002-2 (with Michael Love)

2015
Archival Chromogenic C-print with UV lamination, Dibond mount
40” x 38” (left)
50” x 38” (right)

EX.013-1 and EX.013-2 (with Ghazaleh Avarsamani)
       
     
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EX.013-1 and EX.013-2 (with Ghazaleh Avarsamani)

2016
Archival Chromogenic C-print with UV lamination, Dibond mount
50” x 36” (left)
40” x 38” (right)

EX.009-1 and EX.009-2 (with Ryan Peter)
       
     
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EX.009-1 and EX.009-2 (with Ryan Peter)

2016
Archival Chromogenic C-print with UV lamination, Dibond mount
30” x 42” (left)
38” x 24” (right)

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The Exchange Project

2016
Installation view at Institue for New Connotative Action, Seattle