Contingent Matters

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Contingent Matters was a work commissioned by the City of Vancouver for the Aperture Public Art Program at the Vancouver Public Library.

The general concern of Contingent Matters is the provisional character of knowledge as expressed through language. The texts use teriary colours (red-orange, blue-green, etc.) to represent knowledge as a variegated phenomena coloured by things at a distance, always motivated and never neutral. The texts are placed against a background approximating the colour of the walls of Library Square to appear as if inscribed directly on the buildings surface.

Photos by Henri Robideau