Kelly Lycan is a photo-based installation artist whose work investigates how objects and images are placed and displayed in the world, and the resulting cycle of value they experience. With a longstanding inquiry of repurposed and recontextualized interiors, objects and materials, her exhibition The Fireplace looks at a host of occupants in the once-residential space of the Burnaby Art Gallery, mediating between the world of objects and the absence of its former residents. Offering new glimpses of the gallery/home through reconfiguration and drawing on her long history as a set decorator, The…