Rachel Rozanski: Perma
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PAVED Arts & New Media Gallery 424 20 St W, Saskatoon, Saskatchewan S7M 0X4
Rachel Rozanski, “Perma,” 2021
still from two-channel video, 18 min. (courtesy of the artist)
Rachel Rozanski will present her video installation work Perma in the PAVED Arts Main Gallery Space. This multimedia presentation will follow transformations of land and water, examining the melting of permafrost. The installation is comprised of two-channel video alongside contact photographic images, which were made using a portable scanner the artist built.
As the artist explains, “About 50 percent of Canada is permafrost, and it’s thawing almost a century earlier than predicted. It is the foundation for Arctic ecosystems and in the last ten years, thawing and “permafrost slumps” have started to dramatically change the landscape. […] Examining the melting of permafrost (caused by both industry and by global climate disruption), the exhibition will show permafrost thawing and tailing into newly-created rivers, drained lakes, eroded land, and eventually the sea.”
Rozanski’s stated goal is to investigate, through photography and other artistic expression, the global effect of human-induced changes in the environment and the empirically verifiable deterioration evident along Arctic coastlines.
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