Lyla Rye: Abide
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Truck Contemporary Art in Calgary 2009 10 Avenue SW, Calgary, Alberta T3C 0K4
Lyla Rye, "Abide," 2019
Opening Reception // April 5 2019 at 7PM
Abide by Lyla Rye is a series of videos and video installations that explore the difficulty of being present and still in times of life changes. These installations overlay HD footage of the artist’s mother’s hospital room as she lay dying, with cellphone clips that her teenage daughter shoots. These two types of footage are overlaid using two projectors, creating a physical superimposition where brightness obliterates while darkness reveals. The two single channel works simulate a state where time seems to slow down, yet also drifts past without notice. One traces the baseboard of the house the artist’s father finished building just before he died, while the other witnesses the questionable uniformity of time in a hospital room.