Brian Jungen
invited by Trevor Smith

photo: Blaise Adilon		photo: Blaise Adilon (détail)

BRIAN JUNGEN
born 1970 in Vancouver, where he lives and works
In his sculptures and installations Brian Jungen makes play with the potential interaction between material and subject. In examples like a pair of Air Jordans transformed into American Indian masks and plastic garden chairs forming the skeleton of an endangered species of whale, Jungen explores the tension between the consumer society and the indigenous cultures and territories on which it grows.

TREVOR SMITH
Born 1964 in Regina-Saskatchewan, Canada, lives and works in New York
Art critic and freelance curator Trevor Smith formerly worked for the New Museum in New York, where he organised the Andrea Zittel retrospective in 2006–07. Curator of the Art Gallery of Western Australia from 1997 to 2003, he has been responsible for many exhibitions in Australia, Canada, Brazil and other countries around the world. He writes regularly for “Art Monthly Australia”, “Canadian Art”, “Artlink”, “World Art” and “Parkett”.