Vancouver is the setting for many of Wall's works. His pictures speak to our own experience of life in a city and its environs, and the frictions in society that are encountered on a daily basis. Wall has often spoken of Vancouver as:

'Not an impressive but a very ordinary city. That is what modernity is like when it is fresh … In my pictures I try to perceive it as the actual environment in which we live, as the result of all our labours and errors.' - Jeff Wall