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VIVO is located in the homelands of the xʷməθkʷəy̓əm (Musqueam) Sḵwx̱wú7mesh (Squamish), and səl̓ílwətaɬ (Tsleil-Waututh) peoples in a warehouse space at 2625 Kaslo Street south of East Broadway at the end of E 10th. Transit line 9 stops at Kaslo Street on Broadway. From the bus stop, the path is paved, curbless, and on a slight decline. The closest skytrain station is Renfrew Station, which is three blocks south-east of VIVO and has an elevator. From there, the path is paved, curbless, and on a slight incline. There is parking available at VIVO, including wheelchair access parking. There is a bike rack at the entrance. The front entrance leads indoors to a set of 7 stairs to the lobby.
A wheelchair ramp is located at the west side of the main entrance. The ramp has two runs: the first run is 20 feet long, and the second run is 26 feet. The ramp is 60 inches wide. The slope is 1:12. The ramp itself is concrete and has handrails on both sides. There is an outward swinging door (34 inch width) at the top of the ramp leading to a vestibule. A second outward swinging door (33 inch width) opens into the exhibition space. Buzzers and intercoms are located at both doors to notify staff during regular office hours or events to unlock the doors. Once unlocked, visitors can use automatic operators to open the doors.
There are two all-gender washrooms. One has a stall and is not wheelchair accessible. The other is a single room with a urinal and is wheelchair accessible: the door is 33 inches wide and inward swinging, without automation. The toilet has 11 inch clearance on the left side and a handrail.
To reach the bathrooms from the studio, exit through the double doors and proceed straight through the lobby and down the hall . Turn left, and the two bathrooms will be on your right side. The closest one has a stall and is not wheelchair accessible. The far bathroom is accessible.
Soledad Fátima Muñoz is an interdisciplinary artist and researcher born in Canada and raised in Rancagua, Chile. Her work seeks to highlight the historical materiality of textiles and their role in shaping our collective memory. Through her large-scale weavings, sound installations, and audiovisual projects, she hopes to create instances that contribute to the construction of a more equitable society and the production of new archives of resistance.
In addition to her material works, she utilizes different forms of cultural production as part of her practice. In 2014, she started Género, a record label focused on the distribution of women's work in the sound field. Then in 2017, she co-founded CURRENT Symposium, which is an ongoing interdisciplinary multi-day music and electronic art symposium featuring free events, panels, exhibitions, and workshops. More recently, in 2019, she co-created "La Parte de Atrás de la Arpillera'' a collection of interviews with Chilean arpilleristas and textile workers, whose experiences tell the history of resistance in this country.
Muñoz is currently working on her project Woven Memory / Memoria Entretejida, a series of site-specific installations and exhibitions planned around large-scale copper wire weavings, which commemorate the lives of those still missing and murdered during Augusto Pinochet's dictatorship in Chile.
Soledad received a Master of Fine Arts from the School of the Art Institute of Chicago, graduated from Emily Carr University of Art + Design, has a diploma in Textile Arts from Capilano University and studied Film at the ARCIS University of Santiago in Chile. She is the recipient of several awards, including the City of Vancouver Emerging Artist Award, the New Artists Society Merit Scholarship from the School of the Art Institute of Chicago, the Emily Carr University President's Award, and the Textile Society of America's Student and New Professional Award.
Photo by Kati Jenson
