Meet in the Middle: Stations of Migration and Memory Between Art and Film (Regina, 2014-2017) Station 5 | Prairie - (Magic) Realism(s)
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Dunlop Art Gallery 2311 12 Ave (PO Box 2311), Regina, Saskatchewan S4P 3Z5
Trudy Stewart and Janine Windolph, "RIIS from Amnesia," 2015
video. Image courtesy of the artists
Meet in the Middle: Stations of Migration and Memory Between Art and Film (Regina, 2014-2017)
Station 5 | Prairie (Magic) Realism(s)
Central Gallery
Amanda Strong, Brett Bell, Deco Dawson, Chrystene Ells, Danishka Esterhazy, Lacy Morin-Desjarlais, Michele Sereda, Trudy Stewart, and Janine Windolph
Curated by Christine Ramsay and Strandline Curatorial Collective
Prairie (Magic) Realism(s) explores tensions between Western Canadian art films which embrace the ability of magic to represent the real world, and those which insist on the sustained power of non-fiction film to document social and cultural problems and their traumatic effects.