Redeemer University
777 Garner Road East Ancaster ON L9K 1J4
Art Gallery
Exhibition dates: November 6 – January 8
Opening Reception: Thursday, November 6, 5-7 p.m.
Artist talk: Monday, November 17, 11-11:50 a.m.
Continuum – Considerations of Memory in Unquiet Landscapes
A Photography Exhibition by Sylvia Galbraith
Comprising large-scale framed photographs as well as video, the overall collection is an examination of relationships with “place”, our overlapping experiences and our tendency to perpetually seek connections with the landscape; geographically, in time, and in memory.
Primarily based on photographs created by Galbraith during residencies in Newfoundland, this exhibition follows lines of enquiry that, on the surface, may seem unconnected; initially there appear to be three narratives at play, yet connections quickly become apparent. Galbraith’s work responds to our relationship with the landscape-the physicality of the ground beneath us, the stability and constancy of rocks that are millions of years old, the reassurance of things remaining in place. At the same time, we often yearn to be somewhere else; drawn towards a shifting, far-off horizon, we believe that we can change our current situation simply by changing our location. Yet in other ways, we draw those same distant landscapes back to ourselves–rather than moving towards that horizon, we pull it inside in an attempt to own it under our own terms.