On the occasion of his representation of Canada at the Venice Biennale, this project celebrates the work of eminent Canadian artist Stan Douglas; Douglas is a photographer, installation artist and filmmaker whose work reveals complexities that often live beyond, behind or just beneath, the metanarratives of historical accounts. In this selected group of photographs, Allegories of the Present follows Douglas’s eye as he examines the various image-based constructions that assist in history’s storytelling conventions. His interrogations take us through visual accounts of the city of Vancouver…