SPOTLIGHT | Getaway x 'Cabin Fever' x Vancouver Art Gallery

Downtown—(June 7, 2018) The Vancouver Art Gallery opened Cabin Fever, their summer art exhibition on the second floor, celebrating the history and tradition of the cabin as both an architectural form and cultural construct in North America from frontier times to contemporary millennial interpretations.

Material Culture

The collection of works and imagery—divided into three sections Shelter, Utopia, and Porn—aims to deconstruct the outdoor getaway ideals of backcountry shelter echoing some of British Columbia's own beautiful landscapes.



Cabin Fever explores fixations of getting away from guest curator Jennifer M. Volland who originated the idea.



The spare and precise exhibition captivates the essence of cabin culture in the context of our own hyper-connected world.

Aesthetics of Ruggedness

Ideas of romancing nature or morphing cabin imagery into pornographic concepts dissect our notions of leaving urban life behind while conceptualizing suggestions of refuge.



Visitors can also gander at the many architectural models, drawings, plans, photographic prints, historical documents, literature, and videos including a display of Lars von Trier's horrifying film Antichrist shown on a small TV set in a cabin setting.

Log Cabin

Cabin Fever is on display now until September 30th.


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