Canada’s entry to the Venice Biennale shows a country of impostors GlobeArts
Impostor Cities is an exploration of a straightforward idea: “Cities in Canada don’t play themselves in films,” Dr. Theodore says. “They play other cities.” He cites the quadrangle at Simon Fraser University by Arthur Erickson and Geoffrey Massey and Charles Pomphrey’s R.C. Harris Water Treatment Plant in Toronto as examples; each has some sort of generic quality that makes it suitable as a backdrop to film.
The exhibition will include screenings of supercuts – assemblages of the onscreen appearances of a given place – and an interactive library that provides the history of the selected buildings. “We’re going to present these buildings the way they are seen by the public,” Mr. Balaban says in a phone interview,"and also present the architect’s view.
Architect Thomas Balaban explains that the curators intend to wrap the building in a green screen – material of a precise colour that makes it invisible to video cameras.One thing is clear; this is not a survey of Canadian architecture. “I’m not convinced that the way to think about Canadian architecture is by those 19th-century categories of climate, geography” and so on, Dr. Theodore says.
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