How Do I Fit This Ghost in My Mouth?
An exhibition by Geoffrey Farmer
May 30–September 7, 2015
Geoffrey Farmer
Detail from The Surgeon and the Photographer, 2009
paper, textile, wood, metal
Collection of the Vancouver Art Gallery
Purchased with funds from the Jean MacMillan Southam Major Art Purchase Fund, Phil Lind, Vancouver Art Gallery Acquisition Fund, Canada Council for the Arts Acquisition Assistance Program and the Michael O’Brian Family Foundation
Photo: Rachel Topham, Vancouver Art Gallery
A remembering, a foreground and a dancing text.
A nose, a staging, a clock and a laughing palm.
You will tower up like a giant and then shrink back to your original size.
You will see days change colour and two million years will fit into your pocket.
The Andy Warhol Foundation for the Visual Arts
Rick Erickson and Donna Partridge
The Joffe Family
Jake and Judy Kerr
Friedel Maché
David Aisenstat
Nancy McCain and Bill Morneau
Furthermore, a program of the J.M. Kaplan Fund
The Jack and Doris Shadbolt Endowment for Publications
Publication
The Surgeon and the Photographer
Published by the Vancouver Art Gallery, 2015
Hardcover, 432 pages
Illustrations: 406 colour
Author: Geoffrey Farmer
The Surgeon and the Photographer profiles all of the 365 figurative components of Geoffrey Farmer’s seminal installation of the same name. The sculptures are comprised of fabric bodices onto which photographic reproductions of faces, artworks, animals, signs and various other appendages have been added. In book form, the cut-out images are brought full circle: from original object to published reproduction, then to re-arranged object, and finally to another photograph—continuing in an endless play of re-representations.
Visionary Partner for Scholarship and Publications:
The Richardson Family