Vancouver-based artist Babak Golkar’s installation Time to Let Go…reveals his interest in inviting public experiences of material objects. Touching on the working process for creating the installation’s large-scale terracotta vessels, the artist speaks to his interest in the scream as a tangible experience of art in a public place.
Babak Golkar is a Vancouver-based artist and educator. Born in the United States in 1977, he spent his formative years in Iran. After moving to Canada in 1996, Golkar obtained a Bachelor of Fine Arts in Visual Arts from the Emily Carr Institute in 2003 and a Masters of Fine Arts from the University of British Columbia in 2006. Golkar’s art practice is centered on dichotomies of tradition and modernity, craft and fine art to find an underlying common ground and an opportunity for multi-layered readings. Such strategies are implemented by exploring how ideas and materials transform in different contexts and how new meanings emerge through re-contextualization.