Installation image of Phantom Body by Kat Ryals. Exhibition essay co-created by Alissa Polan and Jennifer Tazewell Mawby. To feel is to remember. To remember is to resist. In Phantom Body, the aftershocks of rupture, political, personal, and physical, are not erased; they are summoned. What remains after silencing and fragmentation is not absence but […]
Above: Harry (2025), by Amelia Biewald. In this imaginative review, writer Lina Revere guides readers through Dream Junk & Cosmic Dust, a collaborative exhibition co-presented by PARADICE PALASE and GLORIA’S from April 11 to May 4, 2025. Featuring eleven artists from the PARADICE PALASE membership network, the show brings together an evocative mix of small […]
Lina Revere Writer and critic tracing the politics of pattern, memory, and making. Lina Revere is a writer and artist based on the West Coast of Canada whose work bridges material observation and feminist critique. Grounded in craft histories, domestic spaces, and community-based practices, her writing explores the everyday textures of creative life. She resists […]
Above: Hewitt Callister’s painting palette in Berlin, 1989. The Material Fight and the Fortunate Few A painting should not come easily. If the surface lies there, smooth and obedient, waiting to be admired, then something has gone wrong. Art that submits too willingly to the artist’s will, or worse, to the audience’s expectations, has already […]
Above: Quilt by Lina Revere. The Trouble with Calling It Work I hesitate when I call art “work.” The word lands uncomfortably, as though I am slotting something intimate into an economic structure that was never meant to hold it. I use it anyway, because artists are workers, because I want to insist that making […]
Editors note: I’m pleased to announce that Lina Revere will join the Vantage Art Projects team as a writer and contributor of reviews and texts. We look forward to Lina’s poetic eye and generous spirit – Jennifer Mawby, Vantage Art Projects. My process – Lina REvere I would describe my writing style as conversational, deeply […]
Editors note: I’m pleased to announce that Hewitt Callister has agreed to become a regular contributor to Vantage Art Projects and will take on the challenge of writing about artists and their work. Here’s a statement about the position he comes from when approaching both the artworks and the person behind the works – Jennifer […]
Jennifer Tazewell Mawby and The Library of Babel: Speculative Archives in an Age of Digital Uncertainty. By Hewitt Callister. Jorge Luis Borges’ The Library of Babel (1941) is a nightmare of knowledge, an infinite archive where every possible book exists, yet meaning itself is lost in the sheer chaos of it all. The librarians, trapped […]
West Berlin in the ’80s was a city in limbo, cut off from the rest of the world, but alive in its own strange way. It was modern and decayed, a Western capital stranded in communist territory. The Wall loomed over everything, dividing the city into two nervous halves. Some neighbourhoods, especially near the Wall, […]