Carol Condé and Karl Beveridge The Fall of Water  2006-2007

the exhibitions

 

Carol Condé and Karl Beveridge: Working Culture

13 March – 2 May, 2010

The overview of the extraordinary art practice of Carol Condé and Karl Beveridge features a selection of major photographic projects spanning their thirty-year career of active engagement with organized labour and spate of issues – relating to environment, natural resources and social services –emerging in the wake of globalizing economies.

The exhibition Carol Condé and Karl Beveridge: Working Culture maps Condé and Beveridge’s formulation of assorted left-perspective discourse, and traces the innovation in artistic form that audaciously blend the conventions of commercial images, agitprop and art historical tropes to produce their trademark neo-Brechtian, anti-realist tableaux.


Condé and Beveridge’s art offers a rare conflation of historic span and currency, and its rang of topical allusion is a guarantor of diverse interpretive possibilities for Working Culture. Their photography stakes out working class issues, addressing realities of the struggle for equality, fair working conditions and respect, while emphasizing the power of working together for change, and illuminating the history of organized labour in Canada. The work offers a refreshing, even startling, contrast to present-day mass media preoccupations with the imagining of privilege and the glut fource of accelerated consumption.

Organized and circulated by the Agnes Etherington Art Centre