Annie Briard | In Possible Lands

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Annie Briard, “In Possible Landscapes XIII,” 2023

ed. 3 (courtesy of the Gallery)

Opening Reception: Thursday, September 5, 7 - 9 pm

Monica Reyes Gallery is delighted to invite you to attend Annie Briard's fourth solo exhibition with the gallery.

In Possible Lands pairs superimposed photographs of the landscape—one captured 45 years ago by the artist’s father, and the other a present-day image taken by Annie Briard—that together evoke a sense of wonder with their vivid colours and majestic yet familiar subjects. But examined up close, they reveal a world altered by human action.

On repeated long-haul hikes across Western Canada and the United States, the artist has been documenting a rapidly changing environment where, trip to trip, the evidence of climate change has become impossible to overlook. Briard was struck by the connections she saw between these photographs and an archive of slides her father took years earlier, as he traveled from Quebec to British Columbia while studying geology. Each image of In Possible Lands compresses the time gap between these two sources. By looking at the changing landscape, the artist meditates on these visible as well as unseen human impacts. The resulting photographic works offer us a medium to see into the future, asking: How do we read the past and understand the present to make predictions about what is to come? — Text by Katherine Dennis, Curator Evergreen Cultural Centre.