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Last night we went Been Up So Long It Looks Like Down To Me a large group exhibition curated by Mark Soo at Presentation House Gallery in North Vancouver.

The exhibition featured work by fourteen artists including Sam Durant, Rodney Graham, Bruce Nauman, Jonathan Monk and William Hunt. The exhibition also features screenings of Sam Durant’s Entropy in Reverse (Gimme Shelter Backwards) and Bruce Nauman’s Pulling Mouth at the Pacific Cinematheque.

The exhibition catalogue launch, Saturday October 13th, features a performance by London artist and songwriter William Hunt: where he sings and plays guitar after hoisting himself upside down to the ceiling of the gallery.

This exhibition “examines the context of inversion with works that are literally and upside down, turned over, or skewed off axis.” Highlights for me were Jonathan Monk’s Constantly Moving While Standing Still

an upside down bicycle resting on the floor on its handle bars and seat with some kind of small motor that keeps the wheels slowly turning and Rodney Graham’s Morris Louis like painting of four, long coloured gravity determined paint drips on linen- beautifully framed in a period gold framed shadow box- a prop from his latest photograph The Gifted Amateur, which he is showing in London as part of his Wet on Wet: My Late Early Years exhibition at the Lisson Gallery in London, October 10- November 14th.