THE PLAGUE (2009) / SCENE OTHERWISE (2012)

With these two monumental images, a combination of staged scenes and collage, Karl Beveridge and Carole Condé illuminate both sides of the financial crisis and its aftermath: the haves and have-nots, the 1% and the 99%. THE PLAGUE links the environmental crisis and the economic crisis in an airport scene populated by contemporary and historic figures, representatives of a number of great financial crises since 1500, as well as economists and biologists. SCENE OTHERWISE is intended as a counterpoint, and is based on the Occupy camp which was set up in October and November, 2011, in Toronto. In this collage the issues that fed the Occupy movement are brought together and placed in an historical context.