Opening: Raymond Boisjoly at Republic Gallery
- Date: 6 pm on Friday, September 16 2011
- Show: The Writing Lesson
- Artist: Raymond Boisjoly
- Medium: Mixed Media
- Location: Republic Gallery
- Address: 732 Richards St, 3rd Flr, Vancouver
The Writing Lesson looks to the visual component of the heavy metal subgenre of black metal as a vernacular mode of writing to illustrate place names with indigenous origins. A significant amount of black metal music seeks to recuperate pre-Christian spiritual elements in the face of the forceful encroachment of monotheistic faiths. Through a rudimentary photographic process, the light of the sun has burned the names of places such as Masset, Skidegate, Chilliwack, and Yakima into plain black construction paper with the hope more will be revealed than concealed.
Contributed by Mike Gobbi