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Join us for the opening reception of Adad Hannah’s, The Decameron Retold.
A newly commissioned work by the Richmond Art Gallery, this exhibition is based on Giovanni Boccaccio’s 14th century work, The Decameron, a collection of medieval novellas comprised of 100 tales told by ten young women and men sequestered in a villa outside of Florence in order to escape the Black Plague.
For the exhibition Hannah has created a series of video tableaux vivants using Boccaccio’s frame narrative as the departure point. Working with community members in front of and behind the camera, and incorporating local stories gathered through an open call, participants lay their own stories over The Decameron’s structure.
Free admission, everyone welcome to attend.
Biography
Adad Hannah was born in New York in 1971, spent his childhood in Israel and England, and moved to Vancouver in the early 1980s.
Hannah is well known for his photographic and video works that explore the performative and cinematic potential of tableaux vivants. He has produced community-based projects around the world, from Senegal to Australia, the United States, and across Canada. This is his first large-scale community project in the Lower Mainland.
This is one of the 200 exceptional projects funded through the Canada Council for the Arts’ New Chapter initiative. With this $35M initiative, the Council supports the creation and sharing of the arts in communities across Canada.
