Opening Reception - Supernatural: Art, Technology and the Forest
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Art Gallery of Greater Victoria 1040 Moss Street, Victoria, British Columbia V8V 4P1
Kelly Richardson, "The Erudition," 2010
installation view: NGCA (UK), 3 screen, 48’ x 9’, HD video with sound, 20 minute loop. Courtesy of the artist and Birch Contemporary, Photo credit: Colin Davison.
To celebrate the exhibition opening the Gallery is available to all at the Public Open House on May 19 from 10 a.m. to 5 p.m.
Twentieth century photography has made an important contribution to constructing the idea of the forest as natural heritage, promoting the beauty of national parks and forest landscapes. However, contemporary artists, drawing on this legacy, and working with new photo-based technologies, are bringing a critical lens to this history of representation.
Supernatural: Art, Technology and the Forest features contemporary photo and video-based work by artists working in British Columbia who are using technology to consider the idea of the forest as a social and cultural artefact. The exhibition explores how photographic technologies have mediated and shaped our relationship to forests and forest ecologies; and how computer generated imaging and 3D technologies are suggesting the need for a new approach to our relationship with the trees.
Featuring artists Mike Mclean, Trudi Lynn Smith, Ayumi Goto, Dan Siney, Leila Sujir, Ian Wallace, Sandra Semchuk, Carol Sawyer and Kelly Richardson.
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