Reception: Saturday June 11, 2-4 pm 

A correlation between sculpture and photography seems unlikely. In general terms, the concerns and expressions of sculpture are in “the real”—materials, mass, volume and form—whereas photography presents us with images from the world through chemistry and light as a continuous tonal surface, and where scale is always relative and mutable.

Through diverse works from the Museum collection—Canadian and international sculpture, photography, and hybridised camera works—another perspective on contemporary practices is teased out. These are artist questions and articulations of site as place and consciousness. In short, the natural and built environment can be observed and a consciousness of being visualized. The responses can be regarded as provisional, beyond what is verifiable or measurable—actuality as a perceptual signal; an intense or focused moment of revelation wherein the work of art is both site and portal to space and time. American art historian George Kubler (The Shape of Time, 1962) wrote:

The exhibition title is drawn from a Richard Long statement, describing his working in the world and “the beauty of objects, thoughts, places and actions.” Anish Kapoor offers a further, and complementary thought: “all the objects in the world are symbolic…it’s the artist’s duty to find poetic meaning in things.”

Margaret Priest, The View From Here of the View of the City, 1995-2011
digital print mounted on Dybond, Courtesy of the artist, photo: Michael Awad

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List of Works in Exhibition

Extended label copy for all works in the exhibition