ARTSPLACE Gallery in Annapolis Royal has four featured shows heading into the Summer season, and invites you to come visit.
To June 27, Sage Sidley’s “Peripheral Visions” uses cameras attached to goose decoys, remote-controlled cars, bicycles and animals. The more-than-human perspectives draw attention to the ubiquity and absurdity of contemporary recording devices. Suspended within a digital sky modelled after Google Street View, the videos are layered with animated eye floaters. The floaters reference the physical limitations of human sight, while spotlight point to the influence of social media algorithms and language models. Repeated, embedded Google copyright logos underscore the role of large tech companies in shaping how environments are represented. An accompanying sound work features speakers discussing personal experiences with vision and digital technology alongside readings on the science of vision and principles of linear perspective.
Cheryl Mootoo’s “Inscapes” reflects on the character in the spaces between built and natural worlds, to July 25. The photographic component finds beauty in impermanence and incompleteness, while drawing attention to details often passed over. Mixed media works expand these ideas through abstraction and layered material processes.
Two artists exhibit together to July 25 in “In Place: Photographs, objects, stories,” both considering how places are shaped through action, memory and repeated encounters over time. Katherine Knight’s photographs are rooted in the landscapes surrounding her home in Caribou Harbour, Nova Scotia. Working through staged self-portraiture, Knight places figures within environments marked by weather, industry, ecological change and history. Barbara Lounder presents works originally created for walking art events, combining sculptural objects, documentary photographs, costumes and participatory elements.
“We Are Nova Scotia,” by travel and street photographer Anne Launcelott, is on view to July 25. In 2020, she was commissioned by SSP Publications to create 100 portraits of Nova Scotians. Photographed during a period of public health restrictions, these works reflect a particular moment in time.
ARTSPLACE is a public art gallery operated by the Annapolis Region Community Arts Council, a registered charitable, community organization dedicated to encouraging and promoting the arts; located at 396 St. George Street in Annapolis Royal.
