SHED Unusual Migration

photo: Karen Asher

Detritus, digital photographs on vellum 7.6m x 2.5m x 30cm

Detritus, detail

SHED Root, video installation

Lapse, computer animation projection

Uproot, digital photographs on vellum paper 30cm x 90cm x 18cm

Disturbance, video installation 4m x 2.2m x 38cm

2014

SHED Unusual Migration fast-forwards to a hybridized future while glancing at a living past. For this exhibition, I used photography, video, and installation to gather, interpret and re-use structural elements from an abandoned farm shed within a gallery space.

This two-year exploration began as a response to a foxtail colonization of forested land under suburban threat. I installed photo-based media in the shed and documented time, weather, birds, insects and animals in this fallow landscape.

For this exhibition, I negotiated my understanding of space and time to reconstruct shed experience. I invited viewers to move through fragments of history, memory and invention of something or someone having been, and of the places that animate and record that existence.

This exhibition was made possible with the generous support of the Manitoba Arts Council and the Winnipeg Arts Council.

Installation documentation at Aceartinc.

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