NEXT:
Christos Dikeakos
September 26, 2015–January 31, 2016

Christos Dikeakos
The Collector, 2013
ink jet print
Private Collection, West Vancouver
In this focused exhibition, Vancouver-based artist Christos Dikeakos considers the economic and cultural values involved in transactions of Northwest Coast art. This series of photographs produced over the last six years portrays collectors, entrepreneurs and artists captured in acts of assessment, exchange or contemplation of these evocative objects. Additional images by Dikeakos speak to the transformation of land use and the spiritual dimensions of nature, both of which inform Indigenous cultural beliefs.
NEXT: Christos Dikeakos is the seventeenth installment in NEXT: A Series of Artist Projects from the Pacific Rim. Organized by the Vancouver Art Gallery and curated by Daina Augaitis, Chief Curator/ Associate Director