"Out of Sight"

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Harold E. Edgerton, "Bullet Through King," 1964

Harold E. Edgerton, "Bullet Through King," 1964, chromogenic print, 40.5 x 50.8 cm, Collection of the Vancouver Art Gallery, Gift of Angela and David Feldman, the Menkes Family, Marc and Alex Muzzo, Tory Ross, the Rose Baum-Sommerman Family, Shabin and Nadir Mohamed, VAG 2013.18.5, © 2015 MIT, Courtesy of MIT Museum

September 10 to November 6, 2016

Public opening reception: September 9, 2016, 7 pm

Free lunch time tours of Out of Sight with Nanaimo Art Gallery

Curator Jesse Birch: Thursday, September 29 and Thursday, October 27 at noon.

Out of Sight is a touring exhibition from the Vancouver Art Gallery that features a selection of recently-acquired photographs by Eadweard Muybridge (1830-1904) and Harold Edgerton (1903-1990), two giants in the history of photography. Both artists are celebrated for their revolutionary works that expand our understanding of time and motion and extend the capacity of human perception by making time stand still.

While time can be measured and evaluated, it also has a profound subjective dimension; how the passage of time is understood and felt is the product of individual experience, making its perception fluid, malleable and subject to interpretation. Both of these artists continually mined this rich terrain—how time can be represented and perceived—by manipulating and distorting the ways in which time functions to challenge our accepted views and preconceived notions.

The photographs of Muybridge and Edgerton depict slices of time—frozen moments—to approach the problem of representing that which cannot be seen. In their scientific experiments they exploited the promise of the photographic medium to act as a definitive record of an action or event, essentially stopping time to depict the mechanical truth of movement. Brought together, these bodies of work explore ideas about perception and representation, challenging viewers to reconsider what we see in our everyday encounters.

Out of Sight is organized and circulated by the Vancouver Art Gallery with the generous support of the Killy Foundation.

Sponsored by: Inuktun

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Art Makes Us.

Vancouver Art Gallery in Nanaimo

In conjunction with the exhibition Out of Sight, part of the Vancouver Art Gallery Across the Province touring program, join us to hear from a special guest artist and from Kathleen S. Bartels, Director of the Vancouver Art Gallery, on the most recent plans for a new Gallery space in Vancouver. The future Vancouver Art Gallery will provide new opportunities for BC artists and increased capacity for exhibitions that can be shared with partner institutions throughout British Columbia.

Tuesday, October 18

4 pm, with reception to follow

Lobby of The Port Theatre, 125 Front Street

RSVP to info@nanaimogallery.ca

Presented in partnership with the Vancouver Art Gallery and The Port Theatre