Rita McKeough: Darkness is as deep as the darkness is.
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Walter Phillips Gallery, Banff Centre for Arts and Creativity 107 Tunnel Mountain Drive, Banff, Alberta T1L 1H5
Rita McKeough, "Ghost Fern," 2019
detail. Photo by Biliana Panic.
Rita McKeough: Darkness is as deep as the darkness is.
Walter Phillips Gallery presents exhibitions by contemporary artists, with a legacy of supporting artistic production engaged in alternative, and experimental forms.
For the Winter Exhibition, Banff Centre’s Walter Phillips Gallery proudly presents: Governor-General Award-winning visual artist Rita McKeough’s darkness is as deep as the darkness is.
Nationally recognized for her complex installation-based works integrating electronic media, sound, and performance, this exhibition by the Calgary-based artist is an invitation into an imagined subterranean just below the ground’s surface. Space where darkness connotes a richness of lived entanglements between beings above and below the soil, the exhibition also references contested sites of urban development and extraction that penetrate the burrows, roots, and remains of animals and plants.
Rita McKeough
Rita McKeough is an installation and performance artist based in Calgary. Her work incorporates audio, electronics, and mechanical performing objects. Since the late 1970s, McKeough has been committed to creating chaotic and immersive installations that reconfigure contradictions and tensions in our everyday lives. She uses interactive technologies to represent complex interspecies relationships and to create links between her installations and sound and music practices. A recipient of the Governor General’s Award in Visual and Media Arts (2009), McKeough has exhibited extensively across Canada and is currently faculty at Alberta University of the Arts.
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