THE CAVE
September 29 – December 14, 2018
Walter Phillips Gallery, Main Space
Banff Centre for Arts and Creativity
107 Tunnel Mountain Drive
Banff, Alberta
CANADA
Organized by Acting Curator Jacqueline Bell
Opening Reception
Friday, September 28, 6:00 – 9:00 p.m.
Young Joon Kwak and Kim Ye in conversation with John Tain
Saturday, September 29, 1:00 – 2:00 p.m.
Please join Walter Phillips Gallery discussion of the exhibition with Young Joon Kwak, Kim Ye and John Tain.
THE CAVE assembles new and existing sculpture and video works by Los Angeles-based artist Young Joon Kwak, featuring collaborations with Marvin Astorga and Kim Ye, and presented alongside works by Adrian Stimson and Shawna Dempsey and Lorri Millan. Interrogating the cultural phenomena of the man cave, the exhibition speaks to the ecstatic mutability of bodies and the relationship between the cave, the cinema, and the dark closeness of the club. THE CAVE is also responsive to the context of Banff National Park and the legacy of artistic practices which have engaged with the present and historical complexities of the region.