The west-facing wall at CBC Vancouver will play host to a new art installation beginning this Thursday (November 12).

Local interdisciplinary artist Faith Moosang has been commissioned to create a new exhibit for The Wall, a public-art project that’s the result of a partnership between the Vancouver Heritage Foundation and CBC Radio-Canada. Titled down. town., the artist’s piece is a large-scale composite photograph made from 164 different film frames, video stills, and digital photographs sourced from the CBC Archives and Wikimedia Commons.

Following recurring themes in Moosang’s work that explore concepts of mediated imagery and the materiality of archives, down. town. reveals the staggering number of buildings that disappeared from Vancouver’s downtown core between 1954 and 2004. These demolitions remained largely unreported by local media at the time, which highlights changing ideas of newsworthiness as well as Vancouver’s own history of development.

Moosang will present an artist talk at the launch of the new Wall exhibit this Thursday (November 12). The event is free and open to the public. Full details are available on the Vancouver Heritage Foundation’s website.