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.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 how an art object’s status, value, and meaning are constructed through artistic declaration, institutional framing, and economic systems. Operating through a barter system, the project engages approximately one hundred contemporary artists in critical dialogue, resulting in an exchange of artworks. These exchanges will culminate in a new body of work: around one hundred diptych photographs of the traded pieces, forming an appropriated archive of artistic labor and value.

Drawing from André Malraux’s Le Musée Imaginaire (1947)—which proposed that art history shifted from the museum to “that which can be photographed”—the project uses Malraux’s diptych format to explore how curatorial and artistic production function as acts of assembly and contextualization. By adopting the roles of artist, curator, and mediator, the project critically engages the structures, codes, and circulation patterns that shape meaning and value within the art system.

Through its alternative economic model, The Exchange Project reframes art as both product and exchange, highlighting the infrastructural conditions of art-making while questioning how value is assigned, transferred, and reproduced within contemporary artistic practice.

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.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