Shannon Bool | Lloyd House | Rebecca Loewen | Alex Morrison | Gailan Ngan | Wayne Ngan | Patkau Architects | Aaron Peck

Trusses is an exhibition of works by contemporary artists and architects that explores how buildings resonate through their uses and their intersections with other forms of culture. Bridging aesthetic and experiential languages, architecture is set in dialogue with painting, sculpture, pottery, writing, photography and film. 

While the title nods to the Old French etymology: trousse, which means “collection of things bound together,” the structural configuration of a truss, as an assemblage that behaves as a single object, is also evoked in the very form of the exhibition, in which specific cultural supports, placed together, activate the whole.

Presented alongside the 2016 RAIC Festival of Architecture in Nanaimo, Trusses reflects Nanaimo’s position as an architectural and cultural intersection between Vancouver’s modern and postmodern structures, and the back to the land builder culture prominent on neighbouring gulf Islands.