This Sorrowful World: Artist Marina Roy on Fire/Fire
By Jessa Alston-O’Connor In Fire/Fire, the works of contemporary artists Marina Roy and Abbas Akhavan draw from 19th century Japanese Ukiyo-e prints of Kawabata Kyosai and Tsukioka Yoshitoshi, grounding them in the context of today’s Vancouver through animation, site-specific installation and aquatic-life in the gallery. The tradition of Ukiyo-e prints (translated to mean “pictures of […]
