SAAG exhibits explore movement and surveillance

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Two exhibits examining  both movement and surveillance draw to a close at The Southern Alberta Art Gallery. They run until Sept. 6.Nicole Hembroff  with Scot Rogers’ Where Is OuR Twentieth Century Promised. photo by Richard Amery

Toronto/ New York City based artist Brendan Fernandes digs into his dance background for his new exhibit ‘Still Move.’


 If features an array of photographs , videos and rubber balls scattered all over the floor of the South side of the main gallery.
“There's a lot of synergy between the  pieces,” observed SAAG communications specialist Nicole Hembroff.
 The black and white photographs feature the dancers posed on plinths.


“They explore the theme of control. There are some pretty intense poses in these photographs,” Hembroff continued.
The exhibit is s heavily influenced by  the movement of ballet dancers.


The SAAG presents  “Still Move” in conjunction with the Kitchener-Waterloo Art Gallery, Rodman Hall, Brock University, Varley Art Gallery, St. Mary’s university  Art Gallery, and the Contemporary art Gallery in Vancouver.

 In the Upper Gallery, Galsgow-based artist Scott Rogers’ “Where is Our Twentieth Century Promised,” features variations on a variety of bird houses and bird feeders which explore surveillance and how people and objects are tracked and how  the viewers interact with their environments.

 


The birdhouses are configured to control movement throughout the gallery.


Artificial falcons  equipped with  GoPro cameras mounted above the gallery monitor  the viewers’ interaction with the exhibit.
“It’s a comment on the act of surveillance,” Hembroff said.


“ There is a lot of play and collaboration,” she added.
 the exhibit also includes drawings, papers and photographs inserted in frames exploring how bodies are indexed, quantified and manipulated within  environments.
Both exhibits run at the Southern Alberta Art Gallery until Sept. 6.

 — by Richard Amery, L.A. Beat Editor
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