Geoff McFetridge | These Days Are Nameless (The Drive, The River, And Hills)
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Contemporary Calgary 701 11 Street SW, Calgary, Alberta
Geoff McFetridge, “Girls In Backseat (The Drive),” 2020, video still (courtesy the artist and Contemporary Calgary)
These Days Are Nameless is an exhibition of Geoff McFetridge’s three short videos from 2020 and the gouache works on paper used to animate them. The sounds and moving images included consider the curiosities of the human condition at the peak of the Covid-19 pandemic. Where are we going? How do we get there? Does it matter?
In his typical minimalistic style, McFetridge draws on the familiar and the timeless- sounds of the city and of nature, sounds that transport you to different places and times. We hear, and we also see moving colours, shifting faces, flowing water, a dog barking or a cricket chirping, a pause, a thump, gentle music, static.
Geoff McFetridge’s works invite you to ponder on movement and the in-between while focusing on the specificities of the ordinary and mundane.