Alana Bartol and Bryce Krynski | All Roses Sleep
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Whyte Museum of the Canadian Rockies 111 Bear Street (PO Box 160), Banff, Alberta T1L 1A3

Alana Bartol and Bryce Krynski, "all roses sleep (inviolate light)," 2022
video still, HD, ultraviolet video, 14:02. Courtesy of the artists.
all roses sleep (inviolate light) includes an olfactory video by Alana Bartol and Bryce Krynski that blends how bees and humans experience and use the land around us. Shot using ultraviolet video, visitors are invited to see the prairie landscape from a bee's point of view and a scratch and sniff card expands on the pleasant and pungent experience of pumpjacks, grazing cattle, prairie grasses, and wildflowers. As the solitary bee searches and dreams of a rose, the work is meant to conjure questions about our shared future. With this new perspective, the landscape becomes alien and while some familiar details are lost, new patterns come into focus and familiar flowers become strange and delicious.
Organized by the Art Gallery of Alberta and curated by Lindsey Sharman. The RBC New Works Gallery features new artworks by Alberta artists and continues the Art Gallery of Alberta's tradition of supporting and promoting Alberta artists.
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