PARADISE HAS MANY GATES
Thursday June 28th, 2018
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Saudi Arabian artist Ajlan Gharem’s Paradise Has Many Gates launches the Vancouver Biennale. The structure architecturally echoes a traditional mosque though rendered in chain link, making it both airily transparent and ominously evocative of a cage. The dichotomy between form and material evokes the multifaceted conflicts of religious constraint and democratic freedom…