Images by ECU Community Members Featured in UNIT/PITT Photo Exhibition
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I Spy … a disposable camera project mobilizes disposable cameras and snail mail to bring together lockdown-era photos by ten artists.
A new exhibition from UNIT/PITT Society for Art and Critical Awareness features work by ten artists, including a half dozen Emily Carr community members.
The online gallery of photographs includes works by Mona Fani (BFA 2018), Ryley O’Byrne (BDes 2005), Svava Tergesen (BFA 2020), Rebecca Wang (currently in her fourth year at ECU), Gloria Wong (BFA 2020), and Jackie Dives, who studied at ECU.
Also included in the show are photos by artists Phoebe Huang, Rachel Lau, Jaz Whitford and Katayoon Yousefbigloo.
The show, entitled I Spy…a disposable camera project, is a mail-art program, informed by pandemic-era physical distancing requirements. A disposable camera was mailed to each artist with a unique text prompt, to which the artists were asked to respond via photography.
All photos in the exhibition were taken during lockdown, between May and June, 2020. Nine images were selected from each artist’s roll for inclusion in the exhibition.
“I spy… is devised as an escape from confinement, in response to restrictions resulting from the COVID-19 pandemic,” reads the exhibition text.
“I spy… is as much a mission to capture a specific photograph, as to pass the time. With that in mind, the images in this exhibition document a series of discreet performances with backdrops ranging from high-rises to undergrowth. They have not been edited.”
Participating artists were chosen through an open call for emerging and student artists by ECU faculty member and UNIT/PITT board chair Sunny Nestler (MFA 2013) alongside board members Molly Randhawa and Eleanor Wearing. Prompts were composed by Samantha Nock.
The current exhibition runs through Dec. 31, 2020, with a second edition slated for 2021. You can view the works of all ten artists in UNIT/PITT’s online gallery, now.