Currents | Kelsey Stephenson

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Kelsey Stephenson, “Currents,” no date

(courtesy of the gallery)

Currents is a large-scale installation comprising a grid of prints that contrast urban river spaces, industry, and policy making spaces. Kelsey Stephenson’s imagery is clearly composed of fragments and individual moments taken from disparate times and places which have been brought together to depict the landscape along North Saskatchewan River. Taken as a whole, the fragility of the multiple systems brought within the gallery becomes readily apparent. The translation from real landscape, to photograph, to negatives, and ultimately screen-printed or cyanotype imagery loses information at each step. The images remind us that our glaciers and water systems are not infinite – each action is interconnected.