Jonas St. Michael: Bandaneira
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Harcourt House Artist Run Centre 10215 112 Street - 3rd flr, Edmonton, Alberta T5K 1M7
Jonas St. Michael, "Bandaneira," 2017
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The official opening of both exhibitions will be taking place on Thursday, December 7, 2017 from 7 pm to 10 pm. Both exhibiting artists will be in attendance and an Artists’ Talk by Bonnie Patton and Jonas St. Michael will take place at 7:30. A wine & cheese reception (cash bar) will be offered, Admission is free.
Bandaneira features a new body of large-scale photographic works by Jonas St. Michael. The title borrows its name from The Bandas; a small group of remote Indonesian Islands that were, until recent history, an important hub of the international spice trade and European colonization and where St. Michael’s project was first conceived.
The large scale-color photographs present an open-ended series of individual works that continues St. Michael’s exploration into the nature of representation and its currency in wider cultural and social contexts. The seeming contradiction of representation coming to approximate social reality, while actually defining social life, plays very much into these works. The photographs present the paradox of the image appearing deceptively real while being inherently a fiction of a ‘real world’.