Finalist Bruce Van Slyke Interview with John Bateman | Salt Spring National Art Prize 2023

NOW I AM ALONE #20. EDITION 1/5
Bruce Van Slyke
Burnaby, BC

Size: 28" x 41"
Medium: Pigment on archival paper. Edition 1/5

To live out one’s private life in public could be either a profound degradation or, equally, among the highest affirmations of status. This paradox hangs a porous curtain between public and private, and it shimmers like a night at the theatre or a dime in the gutter. The rise of theatre in early modern England is synchronous with the flowering of personal aspiration and private enterprise. Theatricality is a cipher of private ambition in an increasingly alienated, capitalist world. “Now I am alone” declares Hamlet before thousands each night, but he is no more alone than we, together in the darkness.

Having worked primarily as a sculptor or as an assistant, advisor or confessor to other artists since the early 1990’s, Bruce van Slyke recently began practicing photography to document and clarify his own thinking, focusing first on the relationship between analogy and perception and, since 2020, upon the shifting, laminar relationship between public and private. He has exhibited anonymously since then, through posters, unsanctioned sculpture installations and online posts as @astigmatic.surveyors.society.

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