Inter Mundos

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Clockwise from top left: Megan Klak, “Small in the Dark,” 2021; Daniel Evans, “Atenoux IV,” 2019; Marilene Oliver, “ J.R.Carpenter, Decomposed,” 2022

Clockwise from top left: oil on canvas/synthetic lace, 60x60” ; mixed, 36x46”; mixed (all courtesy of the gallery)

Reception: December 7 from 6-8 pm

The Art Gallery of St. Albert (part of the Arts and Heritage Foundation) is launching its newest exhibition in the beautiful main gallery space. Inter Mundos explores the complex relationship that we have with technology.

The once fixed boundary between the physical and the digital realms is becoming more porous, carving out a third, intersecting space - a space between worlds - an Inter Mundos.

In this interactive exhibition, Megan Klak, Daniel Evans and Marilène Oliver navigate this boundary through painting, printmaking and virtual reality art installations.

Megan Klak’s large oil paintings capture moments of isolation; figures lost in the entrancing glow of their devices. The interior worlds of these figures are a mystery, inaccessible to the observer. Through encroaching darkness, Klak visualizes the loneliness and disconnection increasingly prevalent in our society.

Daniel Evans’ work focuses on user data, the digital breadcrumbs that people leave scattered in their wake as they journey through their digital and physical lives. This wealth of information can be easily collected, leaving individuals vulnerable to coercive control. Evans’ elegant prints and virtual reality works engage gallery visitors with the visual language of folklore as an apt metaphor for this inescapable relationship.

Marilène Oliver’s My Data Body is a fully immersive virtual reality artwork, transporting viewers into a floating otherworldly environment. They are met with an interactive digitized body composed of webbing lines of text, data and poetry. Oliver showcases her own digital and physical self. Her medical scans are merged with social media and biometrics data, and the experience is enhanced with poetry written by J.R. Carpenter and soundscapes by Scott Smallwood and Stephan Moore.

Klak, Evans and Oliver offer gallery visitors a complex and nuanced view of modern times and the growing realm where the physical and digital collide.

Virtual tour: December 12 at noon on Facebook Live

In-person tour: December 14th at noon