PACE IN SPACE! | Walking Session with Artist Pedro Reyes

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Join us for a special PACE IN SPACE! walking session led by internationally acclaimed Mexican artist Pedro Reyes.

The PACE IN SPACE! walking session invites audiences to participate in a new kind of sport: the artist’s curated score of walks. Some walking styles include: “very small steps,” “chasing someone,” “at the museum,” “waiting in a line that is slowly moving,” “tightrope,” “tiptoe,” “pushing a heavy box,” “robot,” “zombie,” “ballerina,” “skip,” “runway,” “boxer,” “sore back,” “something in your shoe” and more. We invite participants to come in bold, colourful clothing and to be playful together!

The session will begin at the Vancouver Art Gallery’s Hornby Street entrance, will last roughly 20 minutes and will conclude at the Gallery (approximately 1km walk).

This program is in conjunction with the exhibition Offisite: Pedro Reyes at the Vancouver Art Gallery Offsite (1100 West Georgia Street). PACE IN SPACE! is a project about walking. Inspired by mythology, taxonomy and evolving technologies that seem to have a mind of their own, the sculptures in PACE IN SPACE! blur the lines between animal and machine. With humour, Reyes imagines a future where hybrid creatures walk among us. Who enjoys more space, the bodies with wheels or the bodies with legs? Like many of Reyes’ past projects, PACE IN SPACE! integrates participatory strategies that seek to engage community through play, humour and optimism.

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Event Details

 

When: Friday, May 5 at 4 PM
Where: Meet at the Gallery, Hornby Entrance (750 Hornby Street)

PACE IN SPACE! Walking Session will be followed by an artist talk with Pedro Reyes at the Gallery, starting at 6:30 PM. Explore the Gallery for FREE on Free First Friday Nights presented by BMO, and head to Courtroom 302 for the artist talk afterwards!

Admission to the Gallery is FREE for everyone from 4 to 8 PM!

ARTIST TALK WITH PEDRO REYES

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Registration

This event is free for everyone. Please register in advance as space is limited.

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ABOUT THE ARTIST

Pedro Reyes (Mexico City, 1972) studied architecture but considers himself a sculptor. His works integrate elements of theatre, psychology and activism and take a variety of forms, from penetrable sculptures to puppet productions. Significant works include Palas por Pistolas (2007–present), Sanatorium (2011), Disarm (2013), pUN: The People’s United Nations (2013) and Doomocracy (2016). Reyes was commissioned by the Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists together with the International Campaign to Abolish Nuclear Weapons (ICAN)—winners of the 2017 Nobel Peace Prize—to raise awareness of the growing risk of nuclear conflict.

 

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Reyes held a visiting faculty position at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology in 2016. For his work on disarmament, he received the Luxembourg Peace Prize in 2021. In the last year, Reyes has held three survey exhibitions: Escultura Social at the Monterrey Museum of Contemporary Art (MARCO) in Monterrey, Mexico; Sociatry at MARTa Herford in Herford, Germany; and DIRECT ACTION at SITE Santa Fe, New Mexico.