Past Exhibitions

    ZIMOUN 150 prepared dc-motors, filler wire 1.0mm sound installation

    "Zimoun breaks the distance we think exists between structure and chaos. Ordered, structured, and temporal-minded work enables the organic creation of noise by pared-down elements that evoke a Minimalist ethos. Though you stop to listen, you hear what you might have missed. Planned and ordered mechanisms enable minimal materials to make the noise they happen to make. This causes us to think about what structure means for creative production. Does creative freedom benefit from planned organization?" - Kowtow blog
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    HAUNTINGS I

    Guy Maddin summons the unmade and lost films of F.W. Murnau, Fritz Lang, Hollis Frampton, Victor Sjöström, Jean Vigo, Kenji Mizoguchi and Josef von Sternberg, and rescues cinematographic ghosts from oblivion. Consigned to limbo, now resurrected and remade, he projects these masterpieces so that they might continue to haunt film history.
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    Artistic Licence Bureau

    PLATFORM centre for photographic + digital arts is relatively pleased to announce the opening of the performative installation, Artistic Licence Bureau, by Glen Johnson. In a parody of the bureaucratization of the art world, and the seemingly endless ways artistic practices have become systemized, Johnson has created an office where artistic licences are dispensed.
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    University of Manitoba Thesis in Photography 2011, Graduating Exhibition

    Join us in celebrating the accomplishment of these three emerging Winnipeg photographers who make make up the 2011 thesis photography class of the University of Manitoba's Bachelor of Fine Arts Program. Ashley Gillanders, Jamie Starosilec, and Agnes Neufeld will be presenting work from their thesis year.

    EVERY LINE & EVERY OTHER LINE

    CATHY BUSBY [Halifax, NS] / BRUCE LABRUCE [Toronto, ON / Berlin, GDR] / BRENDAN FERNANDES [Toronto, ON / New York City, NY] / SUZY LAKE [Toronto, ON] / ARTHUR RENWICK [Toronto, ON] PLATFORM centre for photographic + digital arts is pleased to present the group exhibition, EVERY LINE & EVERY OTHER LINE, featuring a mixture of emerging and established artists whose work in photography and video are brought together to examine how various approaches to portraiture act as representations of colonization and subsequent revolution.
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    ACTING UP: Performing the Indian

    Acting Up: Performing the Indian will focus on how Aboriginal artists, both in the past and the present, have used photographic space as a performative arena in which to explore issues of identity and culture.
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    CABIN FEVER

    PLATFORM centre for photographic + digital arts is pleased to present the group exhibition, Cabin Fever, featuring a mixture of emerging and established artists whose work in photography and video examine boredom, malaise, as well as social and mental isolation. Curated by J.J. Kegan McFadden
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    TURF WAR.

    With TURF WAR., Divya Mehra's debut solo exhibition, the artist filters signs of power and wealth only to disembowel them and treat them like trophies all the while revealing the economic underpinnings of personal and cultural interaction. Who gets to benefit from which territory? Who gains access into which lands? How does this power transfer from one side to the next? And who is on whose side anyway? Mehra calls into question again and again the notion of the trophy, the sign of wealth, of elitism. -J.J. Kegan McFadden
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    TRY

    In their second exhibition, the Pinhole Artist Collective (PAC) displays a series of pinhole film canister cameras and scans of solargraphs. The members of PAC dispersed these little black cameras throughout the city and country. They sat quietly, exposing for weeks or months. The exhibition features the colourful traces of the sun's path across this space and time. The exhibition includes solarcams and solargraphs and references the location of the cameras.
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    RITUALIZ’D

    RITUALIZ'D offers an investigatory look into notions of ritual from various starting points -- personal, mythological, and digital.
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    “Your face, like a lone nocturnal garden in Worlds where Suns spin round!”

    PLATFORM centre for photographic + digital arts is pleased to present, in her Winnipeg debut exhibition, “Your face, like a lone nocturnal garden in Worlds where Suns spin round!”, by Toronto-based artist Susy Oliveira. Oliveira’s practice fuses photography, sculpture, poetry and architecture in order to create moments of suspended belief and face questions regarding loneliness, beauty, and the environment in which we find ourselves. This most recent body of work examines the human preoccupation of re-producing nature with fabrications, as we attempt to possess and feel closer to the pleasures it offers without dealing with any of its potential discomforts.
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    NO CAUSE FOR CONCERN

    Winnipeg-based photographer Karen Asher discovers a collective identity that parallels her city’s character with that of the people it contains. Her work touches upon the continual state of shifting identity in which Winnipeg — a city that never escapes a state of flux — finds itself. In Asher’s debut exhibition, No Cause for Concern, at first glance the work resembles a collection of b-sides, the images that would not be found in an album or displayed along a family’s staircase. Yet there is an unexpected beauty. -Natasha Peterson
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    Added Value

    Through the act of painting, contemporary Canadian artists Stephanie Aitken, Stephen Andrews, Chris Dorosz, and Janet Werner meditate and comment on the photograph, studying its formal qualities, inherent expectations and pervasive presence in our culture. For these artists the photograph is a visual artifact in need of analysis; it provides artistic fodder, spurring questions about the way a specific photograph operates in order to evoke a particular response in a targeted audience. Curated by Lisa Wood.
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    AS THE SIDEWALK BLEEDS

    The artists in As the Sidewalk Bleeds offer individual ruminations on the topic of the creative misuse of digital technologies. Gathered here is a cross-section of Canadian artists using everything from computers to televisions and cell phones to websites and palm pilots to flatbed scanners in order to produce their art. These divergent artistic concerns overlap to produce a larger conversation regarding: poetry, love, geopolitics, globalization, and the incorporation of media in the everyday. --J.J. Kegan McFadden
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    In Search of Desire

    Ferguson’s practice works either as a gallery installation combining video, photography, sculpture with performative elements or as a single channel video work that can be viewed in a screening or festival context. He is also interested in working within self-imposed limitations that define in what manner work is developed and produced. These ‘impositions’ mirror the […]
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