Basement
Artist
Roy Arden
(Canadian, born 1957)
Date1996
Medium10 c-prints and 10 silver gelatin prints
DimensionsImage: 43.8 × 55.2 cm (17 1/4 × 21 3/4 in.)
Frame/Pedestal: 58.4 × 69.5 cm (23 × 27 3/8 in.)
Frame/Pedestal: 58.4 × 69.5 cm (23 × 27 3/8 in.)
Credit LineThe Mendel Art Gallery Collection at Remai Modern. Gift of Byron Aceman 2016.
Object number2016.9.a-t
Classificationsphotograph
On View
Not on viewBasement depicts a cluttered storage and caretaker’s room in the basement of Arden’s own apartment building, containing decades of accumulated cast-offs, tools, and materials. Arden’s use of both color and black-and-white film creates a sense of time passing. Basement generates the feeling of searching, of scanning the room for some clue, understanding, or sense of order.
Roy Arden has made significant contributions as an artist, writer and curator, well known for his photographic work, video, collage, sculpture and painting, using both traditional and digital mediums. Associated with the “Vancouver School” Arden is an acute observer of local detail as it relates to urban life on a global level, registering the transformative effects of modernity.
Roy Arden has made significant contributions as an artist, writer and curator, well known for his photographic work, video, collage, sculpture and painting, using both traditional and digital mediums. Associated with the “Vancouver School” Arden is an acute observer of local detail as it relates to urban life on a global level, registering the transformative effects of modernity.
