Capture Festival Showcase
Stranger Than Fiction
Capture x Emily Carr presents Stranger Than Fiction,
an exhibition co-curated by Emmy Lee Wall and Birthe Piontek that
features work of 17 emerging Emily Carr University artists, as part of
the 2022 Capture Photography Festival.
Apr 6 – Apr 30, 2022
Events - Free and Open to All
- Opening | April 6, 5:00 - 7:30 PM
Emily Carr University of Art + Design
Michael O’Brian Exhibition Commons Gallery, 1st Floor
*subject to vaccination checks
- Artist Talk (via Zoom) | April 20, 2022, 6 -7PM
More information on Capture Photography Festival Website
About Stranger than Fiction
What can a photograph reveal? This investigation lies at the heart of the work of 17 emerging, lens-based practitioners who comprise this exhibition. While photography has a long and fraught relationship with the truth, these artists use their works to probe what it is possible to know and delineate through photography, accepting as a given that truth is subjective, malleable, and time-specific.
Some works are process-based, exploring what is possible for the medium to represent. Here the light-sensitive surface becomes a site of experimentation and the darkroom a playground to test the medium’s boundaries. These works investigate photography’s relationship to truth – the truth that comes in a recording of an artistic process, or a representation of a moment in time. Through methods of abstraction, these process-based works evoke the idea of illusion as they move away from the representational. They leave us wondering what we see in these images while simultaneously being faithful depictions of light, colour, and surface.
Others investigate identity and representation, questioning the
ability to offer an honest or accurate representation of one’s self or
one’s subject through photography – where does a performance for the
camera begin and end? How can one use the camera to capture the reality
of a relationship, which by its very nature is in-between, intangible
and ever-changing? In many images, objects become laden with meaning,
evoking an emotive or social truth beyond the thing itself. Others in
the group consider space – both domestic and interior and that of the
street – to explore the way in which their practices can depict change
in familial relationships and urban landscapes. Through these
explorations, these artists celebrate the complicated relationship
between photography and truth, attempting to convey a veracity far
deeper than that which is immediately visible.

The Lost Legacy series, 2021
by Liao Yi

Suburbia series, 2021
by Emil Vargas

The Exhale, 2021
by James Vincent

Cusp series, 2021
by Jordan Utting

Itch series, 2021
by Skye Tao

Gym series, 2021
by Gibson Switzer

Person in a Petri Dish series, 2021
by Tillie Roy

A Vulnerable Man series, 2021
by Jordan Robertson

My Bedroom (Home Series) 2021
by Abigail Pfortmueller

Stories that Lie in the Untold: An Album Curation of Foreign Images, 2021
by Meaghan Murray

Bonsai series, 2021
by Leo Mah

Untitled (Verdigris) series, 2021
by David Macgillivray

"wa-ta-wat", Anak ng Lupang Hinirang
by Khim Hipol

X̱á7elcha (Lynn Creek) Watergrams, 2021
by Sidney Gordon

Transcendence series, 2021
by Duncan Fitch

Papillary Dermis, 2021
by BEX

Stripped Down series, 2021
by David Aquino