Julya Hajnoczky: Refugium

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Julia Hajnoczky, "Dalea purpurea," 2020

edition of 15, archival pigment print, available sizes: 54" x 36" / 36" x 24"

Julya Hajnoczky: Refugium

In Conjunction With Artwalk

Artist Reception & Artist Talk Saturday September 18, 1-4 pm, Talk at 2 pm

Meet & Greet With Julya Sunday September 19, 12-2 pm

CKG is pleased to announce a solo exhibition of new photo-based work by Calgary artist Julya Hajnoczky. This body of work was first exhibited in Julya’s spring show at The Whyte Museum in Banff, but due to public gallery closures with Covid, was largely unseen. This must-see body of work is a magical exploration of all the miniscule ecologies that exist around us.

“With the constant drumbeat of climate crises going on in the background, it seems that change for the better may be out of reach. We have forgotten that our relationship with nature must be equitable, reciprocal. In attempting to investigate the world with scientific detachment, we ignore how this endeavour is limited by our human perspective. In creating these images I hope to direct the viewer’s deep attention and affection towards the details and intricacies of natural ecosystems, but also to provoke questions about our species’ seemingly insatiable drive to take, to possess, to bend the natural world into human form.”

Julya Hajnoczky was born in Calgary and raised by hippie parents, surrounded by unruly houseplants, bookishness and art supplies, with CBC radio playing softly, constantly, in the background. Inevitably as a result, she grew up to be an artist. A graduate of the Alberta University for the Arts, her multidisciplinary practice includes digital and analog photography, and seeks to ask questions and inspire curiosity about the complex relationships between humans and the natural world.

Her most recent adventures, supported by grants from the Calgary Arts Development Authority and the Alberta Foundation for the Arts, involved building a mobile natural history collection laboratory (a combination tiny camper and workspace, the Al Fresco Science Machine), and exploring the many ecosystems of Western Canada, from Alberta’s Writing-on-Stone Provincial Park, to the Gwaii Haanas National Park Reserve in BC and Wood Buffalo National Park, NWT.

If she’s not in her home studio working on something tiny, she’s out in the forest working on something big.