Brit Bachmann’s Aidan Comes Home was a vinyl-based wall installation. With the appearance of a line drawing pulled straight from a sketchbook, Bachmann’s highly personal installation filled the Alternator’s window exhibition area. Her piece was a continuous-line “drawing” that documented changing facial expressions.

Aidan Comes Home focused on the line as a metaphor for our lives and converging narratives of strangers and friends. The drawing documented a personal moment once witnessed. Bachmann’s work is known to voyeuristically chronicle the everyday and the intimate with a linear flare that can only be traced back to the hand that made it. Her drawings, made with a single line, illustrate a sequence of figures and actions that compose a single, often fleeting, moment. Aidan Comes Home was no exception, and flowed synonymously with the hallway that the display occupied. With visual emphasis on Aidan’s facial expressions, Brit explored both staged and organic movement.

Brit Bachmann is a multidisciplinary artist and writer based in Vancouver, Canada, on unceded lands belonging to the Musqueam, Squamish, and Tsleil-Waututh First Nations. She is the Executive Director of UNIT/PITT Society for Art and Critical Awareness, and co-founder of ReIssue.pub, an art writing partnership between UNIT/PITT and VIVO Media Arts Centre.

Bachmann has previously worked in administration and outreach at VIVO, The Cinematheque, Capture Photography Festival; and notably, as Editor-In-Chief of Discorder Magazine (2015-18). She is a board member of the Pacific Association of Artist Run Centres (PAARC) on behalf of UNIT/PITT. Brit has served on the programming committee of CFRO Vancouver Co-op Radio (2015-18), and the Polaris Music Prize jury (2016-19). She has a Bachelor of Fine Art from the University of British Columbia–Okanagan.

In addition to cultural labour, Bachmann maintains a visual, sculptural and sound art practice working predominantly with clay and radio.

For more information about Bachmann and her work, visit her website.