Kathy Slade
As the sun disappears and the shadows descend from the mountaintop

Tak Pham
Contemporary Art Gallery, Vancouver
January 27—May 7, 2023
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Kathy SladeSinking in the West, 2022, installation view,
Contemporary Art Gallery, Vancouver.
Photo: Rachel Topham Photography, courtesy of
Contemporary Art Gallery, Vancouver
Contemporary Art Gallery, Vancouver
January 27—May 7, 2023

As visitors enter the first gallery of Vancouver’s Contemporary Art Gallery (CAG), they see a gigantic tapestry of a lake view on a beautiful afternoon blocked by a large boulder. Compelled to look up and gaze at the monumental piece, which takes up almost an entire wall, they encounter an acute assemblage of image-making, philosophical meditation, and material tactility that envelops all senses and suspends them in a delicate balance of the extraordinary.

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