Andi Icaza-Largaespada

Contemporary Art Practices was a three-week visual arts intensive in partnership with [Arts Umbrella](https://www.artsumbrella.com/programs/art/scholarship-programs/visual-art-summer-intensive/), designed for young artists between the age of 15 and 19 interested in developing their visual art practice, experimenting, and pushing the boundaries of their own art making.

Students had the opportunity to work with leading artists, curators, and educators as they explored a range of contemporary art practices and approaches to exhibition making. Participants engaged in critiques and discussions about developing ideas, working with materials, and viewing works of art.

Organized by Emily Dundas Oke

Assisted by Danielle Green and Gabi Dao

### Participating Artists

Juliana Aiello

Cal Carruthers

Madeline Cheung

Isabella “Z” Funaro

David Gorodetsky

Tania Grigoriadis

Emma Ng

Sarah Shouldice

Caroline Sinclair

Jing-Wen Yuan

Megan Yung

### Facilitating Artists

Patrick O’Neill

Jocelyn Sanchez

### Guest Artists

Julia Feyrer

Andi Icaza-Largaespada

Justin Langlois


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Visual Arts Summer Intensive 2018

This is an Illusion

Join CAG Prize winner Andi Icaza-Largaespada for an informal discussion on her new exhibition.

### Biography

Andi Icaza-Largaespada graduated from Simon Fraser University with a BFA in Visual Arts in 2017. She has recently exhibited at La Rizoma, Managua (2016 and 2018) and School of Contemporary Arts, Vancouver (2016). Group exhibitions include New Generation Photography Award, OCAD Onsite, Toronto (2018). Nominations and awards include Scotiabank’s New Generation Award Longlist (2018), Contemporary Art Gallery Prize (2017), The Philip B. Lind Award Longlist (2017), BMO First Art! Nominee (2017), AIMIA/AGO Photography Scholarship Honourary Award (2016), SFU Thanabe/Thorne Visual Art Award (2016) and Canon Prize for Best Photographic Portfolio (2015). In Nicaragua, she co-runs La Rizoma Cultural Centre and participates in feminist, ecological and Indigenous rights activism and advocacy.

An exterior image of CAG’s façade windows with a panoramic photograph in vinyl of a rainforest landscape installed over an orange background.

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Talk 

Andi Icaza-Largaespada is the winner of the second CAG Prize for an emerging artist selected from the graduating class of the BFA program at the School for the Contemporary Arts at Simon Fraser University.

Typical of the artist’s multidisciplinary practice, a new speculative photographic panorama is presented across our Nelson Street façade. Raising questions surrounding ethics and ecology, the image grows out of recent research into Nicaragua’s rapidly expanding mining industry and its connection to Vancouver’s own history of resource extraction, occupation and expansion. Icaza-Largaespada’s subtle insertion of an enigmatic figure pictured within the manipulated landscape suggests a symbolic defiance against the continued colonial exploits of a Vancouver-based mining company in Nicaragua. Shrouded in a golden material, the character at once surveys the scene and refuses our gaze, a quiet manifestation of implied resistance. As described by Unangax scholar Eve Tuck, “resistance is not simply bodies or events articulated against power, but is diffuse, plastic, ungraspable.”

Curated by Julia Lamare, with assistance from Kimberly Phillips

The CAG Prize is generously supported by the Peter Szeto Investment Group, BMO Nesbitt Burns.


### Biography

Andi Icaza-Largaespada graduated from Simon Fraser University with a BFA in Visual Arts in 2017. She has recently exhibited at La Rizoma, Managua (2016 and 2018) and School of Contemporary Arts, Vancouver (2016). Group exhibitions include New Generation Photography Award, OCAD Onsite, Toronto (2018). Nominations and awards include Scotiabank’s New Generation Award Longlist (2018), Contemporary Art Gallery Prize (2017), The Philip B. Lind Award Longlist (2017), BMO First Art! Nominee (2017), AIMIA/AGO Photography Scholarship Honourary Award (2016), SFU Thanabe/Thorne Visual Art Award (2016) and Canon Prize for Best Photographic Portfolio (2015). In Nicaragua, she co-runs La Rizoma Cultural Centre and participates in feminist, ecological and Indigenous rights activism and advocacy.



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A photograph of a rainforest landscape. A curved, orange dirt road intersects the middle of the image. A figure covered in reflective gold cloth stands in the middle of the road. 

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A wide shot image of the exterior of CAG. A panoramic photograph in vinyl of a rainforest landscape is installed across the façade windows over an orange background. 

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An image of the exterior of CAG at an angle. A panoramic photograph in vinyl of a rainforest landscape is installed across six windows over an orange background.

Andi Icaza-Largaespada

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