On Friday July 26th at 6PM TRUCK Contemporary Art will be hosting an artist talk for the current exhibition Dirty Picture by Ryan Danny Owen. Owen will be leading a tour of the works in the exhibition which span nearly a decade of their practice.
"Taking the form of the set of a fictional dirty picture this solo exhibition recontextualizes various personal archives of pornography magazines and VHS tapes using experimental approaches to remove snippets of material footage and imagery. Imagined through a weathered blue billboard and the set of a dreamlike film "Dirty Picture" delves into themes of fantasy absence personal narrative gender and intergenerational queer identity."
Please be advised that the works in this exhibition feature adult content.
Ryan Danny Owen (they/him/her) is a non-binary visual artist author and queer historian based in Mohkinstsis Treaty 7/Calgary Alberta. Their work explores intergenerational queer identity gender loss and sexuality through objects the archive automatic writing and performance. Questioning the body through liminality queer nostalgia and the disassembling and recontextualizing of loaded material to explore fantasy memory and queer absence.
This event will be available to view on Instagram Live @truckcontemporaryart
Event Venue
TRUCK Contemporary Art, 2009 10 Ave SW, Calgary, AB T3C 0K4, Canada
CAD 0.00