October 2, 2025 – February 2, 2026
Geoffrey Farmer: Phantom Scripts
Phantom Scripts revisits three works by Geoffrey Farmer from the Audain Art Museum’s Permanent Collection — Las Crónicas del Vampiro, 22 de noviembre de 1973 (2010 – 2025), La Política de las Apariciones (2012 – 2025), The Good Sweeper (2017 – 2025)— reframing them through newly composed scripts, annotations, and didactic texts authored by the artist. The texts function as interjections — speculative, contextual, poetic — that re-examine and complicate the earlier works. In doing so, Farmer explores how art can be returned to, re-read, and re-situated under shifting historical and ethical awarenesses.
This exhibition is a return — not only to Farmer’s past works, but to the evolving conditions in which they are understood. Phantom Scripts highlights the artist’s curiosity to revisit the assumptions, forms, and the silences embedded in his earlier productions, treating the past not as fixed, but as an unsettled field of interpretation and implication. Early aesthetic elements remain — vivid, disorienting, alive — but are now considered by the artist within a broader awareness of colonial entanglements and queer disidentification, foregrounding the role of the museum not as neutral host, but as a site of complicity, memory, and potential transformation.
Geoffrey Farmer (b. 1967, Vancouver, Canada) is a multidisciplinary artist whose work spans sculpture, performance, installation, and text. Over the past three decades, he has developed a materially and conceptually expansive practice grounded in fragmentation, transformation, and reassembly. Drawing from archival sources, cultural histories, and personal memory, his projects often unfold over time and resist fixed interpretation.
Farmer represented Canada at the 57th Venice Biennale (2017) and has shown work at institutions including Schinkel Pavilion (Berlin), San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, the Art Gallery of Ontario (AGO), and the Louvre Museum. His work is part of several public collections, including those of Tate, MoMA (NY), the AGO, the National Gallery of Canada and the Audain Art Museum.
He currently lives on Kaua‘i, Hawai‘i, where he completed agricultural training and is developing Community Flowers, a nonprofit flower farm. He also received a State of Hawai‘i microgrant to support local food production and address food security on the island.
Geoffrey Farmer: Phantom Scripts is curated by Cassidy Luteijn, Assistant Curator, Audain Art Museum, Whistler, BC.
1. Geoffrey Farmer, La Política de las Apariciones, (2012 – 2025). Audain Art Museum Collection. Gift of Michael Audain and Yoshiko Karasawa.
2. Geoffrey Farmer, Las Crónicas del Vampiro, 22 de noviembre de 1973 , (2010 – 2025). Audain Art Museum Collection. Gift of Michael Audain and Yoshiko Karasawa.
3. Geoffrey Farmer, Las Crónicas del Vampiro, 22 de noviembre de 1973 , (detail) (2010 – 2025). Audain Art Museum Collection. Gift of Michael Audain and Yoshiko Karasawa.
4. Geoffrey Farmer, The Good Sweeper, (detail) (2017 – 2025). Audain Art Museum Collection. Purchased with funds from the Audain Foundation.