Amalie Atkins: The Diamond Eye Assembly
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REMAI MODERN 102 Spadina Crescent E, Saskatoon, Saskatchewan S7K 0L3
Amalie Atkins, "The Diamond Eye Assembly," 2018
film still, Courtesy of the artist.
Event: APRIL 5, 2019 7 PM Turn Out Amalie Atkins and respectfulchild
Remai Modern debuts Amalie Atkin’s recent project, a series of three films that explore ancestral connectivity and the retrieval of distant memories. Shot on 16-mm film and set in the rural community of Petrofka in the North Saskatchewan River Valley, Atkin’s fictional world comes alive through lyrical music and haunting narratives. A cast of female characters animate the landscape, a site of trauma and resilience, communicating with each other across time and connecting past to present.
Remai Modern’s presentation of Amalie Atkins and The Diamond Eye Assembly is made possible through the generous support of TD.
Atkins is a Saskatoon-based multidisciplinary artist with a growing reputation for her films and video installations, recognised in national and international survey exhibitions. Atkins’ work meshes her prairie upbringing, handmade aesthetic and passion for storytelling.
Amalie Atkins lives, works and canoes while holding a film camera in Saskatoon. She creates cinematic fables through a blend of film, textiles, installations, performance and photography, imprinting a fictional world onto everyday life. Atkins has exhibited nationally and internationally including at the Art Gallery of Ontario, Toronto; Central Art Garage, Ottawa; Moving Image, New York City; and 12:14 Contemporary, Vienna. She has also exhibited in Queensland & Tasmania, London and Berlin.
Her work has been included in major survey exhibitions, most notably, Oh, Canada, presented by MASS MoCA, North Adams, Massachusetts; DreamLand: Textiles in the Canadian Landscape, presented by Textile Museum of Canada, Toronto; and Road Show East, which toured in Eastern Europe.
Atkins was the recipient of the Locale Art Award for western Canada in 2011 and long-listed for the Sobey Art Award in 2012 and 2013. The solo exhibition we live on the edge of disaster and imagine we are in a musical toured to the MacKenzie Art Gallery, Regina; Southern Alberta Art Gallery, Lethbridge; and College Art Galleries, Saskatoon. Her work is currently on view in Where the hour floats, a selected exhibition for Capture Photo Fest at Evergreen Cultural Centre, Coquitlam.