From the Globe and Mail:

Three people in balaclavas hold their fists in the air and stand between two flags: The flag in front boasts the symbol of the Native Warrior Society; the one behind, too big to fit in the frame, offers a partial glimpse of the Olympic rings.

This photograph, by Vancouver artist Alex Morrison, is a restaging of a shot sent to the media last year. It came with a statement from the Native Warrior Society revealing that the group had seized the Olympic flag from outside Vancouver City Hall to protest against the actions of the government and the Vancouver Organizing Committee for the 2010 Olympic and Paralympic Winter Games (VANOC). “We stand in solidarity with all those fighting the destruction caused by the 2010 Olympic Games,” the statement read. “No Olympics on Stolen Land!”

Morrison’s reproduction of one of VANOC’s less glorious moments, called Friday, March 9th, 2007, is hanging right now at the Morris and Helen Belkin Art Gallery at the University of British Columbia in Vancouver, part of a show called Exponential Future – and part of VANOC’s Cultural Olympiad.

If there’s irony in a restaged anti-Olympic protest photo being part of VANOC’s much-touted Cultural Olympiad (which gets under way Friday), VANOC officials prefer to see it another way: as proof that their event is artistically sound, not just a cheery diversion.

via artsjournal