Crowded streets, sanitation struggles, vibrant colour, and constant din have characterized the experience of public, urban space for thousands of years, all over the world. While the experience of cities is in some ways universal, our understanding of the way urban spaces work (on us and for us) has changed dramatically over time. In her recent project called How to Fold a Box, emerging artist Sarah Wright looks particularly at the cyclical and systemic power inequality that exists in modern urban settings, and explores how it might be possible to equalize that imbalance.
Wright developed How to Fold a Box by using humble materials and found objects from the city streets to create a series of collaged and hand-drawn vignettes. Taking cues from comics and street art, and often incorporating elements of garbage, Wright’s colourful vignettes reflect stories the artist has gathered from vibrant individuals. The impetus for this project came from a summer that Wright spent working in a soup kitchen in London, Ontario. Each vignette functions as an abstract representation of one of Wright’s clients from the soup kitchen, which she then “maps” onto the walls of the gallery space to indicate the locations where personal stories or events unfolded. The pre-fabricated box templates that function as the structural support for each vignette is suggestive of the push and pull between how we all affect and create space, and the social structures that limit our ability to create or reimagine space differently.
How to Fold a Box calls attention to the way public, urban space is shared with and experienced by those who are so often hidden or marginalized in specific neighbourhoods. By making visible the difficult stories that are often supressed in our communities, Wright encourages viewers to consider how we might share space differently.
The Reach Art on Demand 4.3 Monograph
Originally exhibited in Abbotsford at The Reach Gallery Museum December 08, 2023 to January 27, 2024.
Originally exhibited in Abbotsford at The Reach Gallery Museum October 14, 2023 to December 02, 2023.
Originally exhibited in Abbotsford at The Reach Gallery Museum March 24, 2023 to May 06, 2023.
Originally exhibited in Abbotsford at The Reach Gallery Museum January 27, 2023 to March 18, 2023.
Originally exhibited in Abbotsford at The Reach Gallery Museum November 18, 2022 to January 08, 2023.
Originally exhibited in Abbotsford at The Reach Gallery Museum September 23, 2022 to November 12, 2022.
Originally exhibited in Abbotsford at The Reach Gallery Museum March 25, 2022 to May 07, 2022.
Originally exhibited in Abbotsford at The Reach Gallery Museum January 28, 2022 to March 19, 2022.
Originally exhibited in Abbotsford at The Reach Gallery Museum November 18, 2021 to January 08, 2022.
Originally exhibited in Abbotsford at The Reach Gallery Museum October 01, 2021 to November 13, 2021.
Originally exhibited in Abbotsford at The Reach Gallery Museum March 25, 2021 to May 08, 2021.
Originally exhibited in Abbotsford at The Reach Gallery Museum January 28, 2021 to March 20, 2021.
Originally exhibited in Abbotsford at The Reach Gallery Museum November 05, 2020 to January 09, 2021.
Originally exhibited in Abbotsford at The Reach Gallery Museum September 10, 2020 to November 01, 2020.
Originally exhibited in Abbotsford at The Reach Gallery Museum March 12, 2020 to April 26, 2020.
Originally exhibited in Abbotsford at The Reach Gallery Museum January 23, 2020 to March 08, 2020.
Originally exhibited in Abbotsford at The Reach Gallery Museum November 21, 2019 to January 05, 2020.
Originally exhibited in Abbotsford at The Reach Gallery Museum October 03, 2019 to November 17, 2019.
Originally exhibited in Abbotsford at The Reach Gallery Museum March 14, 2019 to May 05, 2019.
Originally exhibited in Abbotsford at The Reach Gallery Museum January 24, 2019 to March 10, 2019.
Originally exhibited in Abbotsford at The Reach Gallery Museum November 15, 2018 to January 06, 2019.
Originally exhibited in Abbotsford at The Reach Gallery Museum March 15, 2018 to May 06, 2018.
Originally exhibited in Abbotsford at The Reach Gallery Museum January 18, 2018 to March 11, 2018.
Originally exhibited in Abbotsford at The Reach Gallery Museum November 16, 2017 to December 31, 2017.
Originally exhibited in Abbotsford at The Reach Gallery Museum September 21, 2017 to November 12, 2017.
Originally exhibited in Abbotsford at The Reach Gallery Museum March 23, 2017 to May 07, 2017.
Originally exhibited in Abbotsford at The Reach Gallery Museum January 26, 2017 to March 19, 2017.
Originally exhibited in Abbotsford at The Reach Gallery Museum November 24, 2016 to January 08, 2017.
Originally exhibited in Abbotsford at The Reach Gallery Museum September 22, 2016 to November 20, 2016.
Originally exhibited in Abbotsford at The Reach Gallery Museum July 21, 2016 to September 11, 2016.
Originally exhibited in Abbotsford at The Reach Gallery Museum June 16, 2016 to July 17, 2016.
Originally exhibited in Abbotsford at The Reach Gallery Museum December 03, 2015 to January 03, 2016.
Originally exhibited in Abbotsford at The Reach Gallery Museum October 29, 2015 to November 29, 2015.
Originally exhibited in Abbotsford at The Reach Gallery Museum August 06, 2015 to September 06, 2015.
Originally exhibited in Abbotsford at The Reach Gallery Museum July 11, 2015 to August 02, 2015.
Originally exhibited in Abbotsford at The Reach Gallery Museum May 30, 2015 to July 05, 2015.
