Canada Council for the Arts presents Impostor Cities at the 17th International Architecture Exhibition
The Canada Council for the Arts presents Impostor Cities at the 17th International Architecture Exhibition of La Biennale di Venezia, from May 22 to November 21, 2021.
The exhibition is curated by David Theodore of McGill University and realized by Montréal architecture and design practice T B A / Thomas Balaban Architect. The official Canadian participation is commissioned and generously supported by the Canada Council for the Arts.
Dundas Street Toronto, Shape of Water
Toronto’s Dundas and Ossington intersection, re-imagined as 1962 Baltimore
by special effects studio MR. X for the film The Shape of Water.
Impostor Cities is an international exhibition that explores how Canadian cities double as others onscreen. The Canada Council for the Arts states that ?it?s about architectural identity?and it?s about faking it.?
?From Canada?s streets to film and television screens all around the world, Impostor Cities reorients audiences? understandings of their built environment. The exhibition has never felt more relevant, as the architecture we live in is that of the global generic city, we see onscreen together,? says the Canada Council for the Arts.
Screening Room
The exhibition puts visitors in movie-mode, engaging us to experience how
architectural meaning emerges from our communal encounters with films.
Impostor Cities prospects new directions for Canadian architecture by celebrating the protean cities and buildings that pose as cinematic doubles: ?It prese...
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