Opening: Arni Haraldsson at CSA Space
- Date: 6-9pm on Friday, September 9 2011
- Show: Awake in Mount Pleasant
- Artist: Arni Haraldsson
- Medium: Photography
- Location: CSA Space
- Address: #5-2414 Main St, Vancouver
Since the eighties Arni Haraldsson has amassed a vast collection of found imagery gathered from various religious publications such as Awake! and Plain Truth that were made available to him while out strolling in his neighbourhood of Mount Pleasant. Haraldsson clipped the photographic images from these publications and assorted them into various categories. The resulting deconstructed forms and groupings of found images simultaneously espouse the religious and utopic pedagogical intent of their publications and the personal aspirations and hopes of the local Mt. Pleasant followers who distributed them. Taken as such, Awake in Mt. Pleasant can be seen as an unorthodox portrait of the artist’s neighbourhood.