One New Work - 
Nicole Kelly Westman: Pastoral | Calamity

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Nicole Kelly Westman, "Pastoral | Calamity," 2019

image courtesy of the artist.

Launch Party:  Saturday, October 19 at 7:30pm

One New Work - Nicole Kelly Westman: Pastoral | Calamity

Award-winning curator and critic Nancy Tousley marks the tenth installment in her ongoing One New Work series with Nicole Kelly Westman: Pastoral | Calamity. Here, Westman presents two new moving-image works: for every sunset we haven’t seen (2018) and for nights bathed in sodium vapour (2019).

These non-narrative works can be seen as visual and aural tone poems in which Westman speaks of differing stages of loss and mourning. The quietly elegiac for every sunset we haven’t seen was shot at night. It follows the more turbulent imagery and sound of for nights bathed in sodium vapour, shot in daylight and darkness, in a continuous cycle that parallels the workings of grief.

The cucoloris, a special-effects device used in film noir, inspired the images of dappled light in Westman’s films. Two cucolorises, designed by Westman, and two drawings of cucoloris patterns accompany the films in the exhibition.

Organized by Glenbow; curated by Nancy Tousley