Go Home Yuppie Scum - Preston Buffalo
APR 11 - JUN 6 | 2024
OPENING RECEPTION: APR 11, 6 to 8 pm
GALLERY HOURS: Tues - Sat, noon - 6pm
Sponsored by the Parachute Fund and Deux Mille Foundation
Part of the 2024 Capture Photography Festival Selected Exhibition Program

Following his wonderful artist residency in January, Preston Buffalo launches his solo exhibition, Go Home Yuppie Scum, at SUM gallery on April 11. 

Taking its title from graffiti that appeared on empty/sold Vancouver houses and lots in the 1980s as part of the local anti-gentrification movement, Go Home Yuppie Scum is an irreverent take on the “Welcome to Vancouver” View-Master reels popular in the 1960s to 1980s. By making use of vintage View-Masters and modern Augmented Reality, Buffalo creates a series of stereoscopic images that showcase the city from a very different perspective: crumbling, graffiti-adorned structures in the Downtown Eastside, disused rail lines, and thickets of overgrown flora, all eerily devoid of inhabitants. Buffalo applies infrared filters to much of his photographic work, transforming familiar Vancouver scenes into vibrant alien landscapes. The result is a series of urban snapshots that subvert the stereotypical “Beautiful British Columbia” postcard tropes by presenting quasi-dystopian scenes that are unsettling, otherworldly, and beautiful.

Part of the 2024 Capture Photography Festival Selected Exhibition Program, Go Home Yuppie Scum has been singled out by Stir Arts & Culture as one of the five must-see exhibitions in this year’s Capture Festival. Join us for a free opening reception on April 11!