Past Exhibitions

    The Lost Minutes: Shadow of the Platypus

    PLATFORM centre for photographic + digital arts in collaboration with WNDX is pleased to announce the exhibition, “The Lost Minutes: Shadow of the Platypus”, a new installation from Lethbridge based artist David Hoffos (AB) and curated by Collin Zipp (MB). Please join us at the opening reception Friday 11 September 2015 at 8 PM where the artist will be in attendance. An artist talk is scheduled for Sunday, 27 September at 4PM at the Cinematheque theatre across the lobby from the gallery. Both events are free and open to the public.
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    Locating

    Exhibition: July 25 – August 13, 2015 Opening Reception: July 24 @ 7PM In partnership with Video Pool Media Arts Centre, PLATFORM is happy to present Locating, an exhibition of new work created through the New Artist in Media Arts and Media Production Fund. This fund was created by Video Pool to support the creation of […]
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    little resistances

    PLATFORM centre for photographic + digital arts is pleased to announce the exhibition, "little resistances" featuring new work from Scott Benesiinaabandan (QC). Please join us at the opening reception Friday 05 June 2015 at 7 PM. A Salon Night with the artist will take place Wednesday 03 June from 7-10 PM. Both events are free and open to the public. Contact the gallery for more information and to register for the Salon Night.
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    Cut-Up

    In collaboration with Courtney R. Thompson, PLATFORM is pleased to present Cut-Up, a group exhibition that brings together work from various, somewhat incongruous art practices in order to consider the aesthetic strategies of early collage on contemporary art.  By considering each artist’s unique exploration of composition over space and time, Cut-Up marks a contemporary shift […]
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    Sand in the Bellows

    PLATFORM centre for photographic + digital arts is very excited to announce Sand in the Bellows, our annual Members' Show. Please join us on Friday, March 20 for a reception to celebrate the work of our diverse and talented membership. Refreshments will be served, all are welcome to attend.
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    At the corner

    In the exhibition, At the corner, Bindi and Coles use collage and installation to reference screen based experiences that challenge and reinterpret the notion of the filmic. While the artists work independently, a similar cohesive theme emerges: the revision of the screen. Unifying their works is an expanded sense of how film can be defined. This exhibition explores an abstract picture of cinema, turned inside out and re-imagined as film without film
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    When I told you to shoot the sky, I had something else in mind…

    PLATFORM centre for photographic + digital arts is pleased to announce the exhibition “When I told you to shoot the sky, I had something else in mind…” curated by Natasha Peterson (ON). Upending our expectations of landscape photography, the presented work utilizes the materiality of the medium and its attendant technologies in new and porous […]
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    8×10 Draw + Fundraiser – 2014

    PLATFORM is very excited to announce the date of this year’s fundraiser: Saturday 08 November 2014. Due to the popularity of last year’s event, we’ve decided to follow up with another exciting 8X10 draw this year featuring 60 great artists. The gallery will be open for preview from 05-08 November from 12-5. Doors for the […]
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    Candid

    Candid brings together work from four Manitoba-raised artists who blur the line between documentary and staged photography in consideration of the portrait. Using a variety of critical frameworks, the exhibition considers the nuanced relationship presented between photographer and subject within broader contexts relating to class, ethnicity, and gender.
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    memory awareness expectation

    In partnership with Video Pool Media Arts Centre, PLATFORM presents: memory awareness expectation Exhibition: 25 July – 23 August, 2014 Reception: Friday 25 July | 7PM Video Pool Media Arts Centre, in partnership with PLATFORM centre for photographic + digital arts is pleased to announce the exhibition of works created through the New Artist in […]
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    Studio Work

    PLATFORM is pleased to announce the solo exhibition of recent work by Brooklyn based artist Paul Mpagi Sepuya. Studio Work is a body of work from Paul Mpagi Sepuya featuring evolving installations of material generated from his 2010-2011 artist residency at the Studio Museum in Harlem. The project is both a volume of photographs – formal portraits, loose snapshots, still lifes, and details of his studio space – and an installation composed of those materials accumulated in the studio, tracing the artist’s occupation and photo-making from the beginning to the end of the residency. Sepuya states: “My studio was private, but not a closed environment. Rather, it was a stage that I inhabited and opened to those around me.”
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    Station to Station

    PLATFORM is pleased to present, Station to Station, an exhibition of new work by Vancouver-based artist Raymond Boisjoly. Boisjoly continues his investigation into the status of the photographic image - that, in his own words, acts as “an object that negotiates darkness.” Exploring the politics of representation, Station to Station is comprised of abstracted film stills created through the productive misuse of technology. Sourced from Kent Mackenzie’s film, The Exiles (1961), Boisjoly’s images are made by scanning the film while it is being played on a portable digital video player: turning moving images into still ones. The documentary style film, now preserved by the American National Film Registry, follows a group of Aboriginal friends living in Los Angeles. Over a twelve-hour period, the film records their candid discussions of home, community, and future.
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    Upshot

    Upshot is a co-production presented in conjunction with the Art Gallery of Southwestern Manitoba. It is co-curated by Anastasia Hare and Natalia Lebedinskaia, and centres on evoking suspension, and holding still the tension between action and consequence. Through the work of Canadian artists Fiona Annis, Lorna Bauer and Laura Findlay, the selected photographs and video pieces explore loss, reconstruction and potential.
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    Feu Mirabel

    In collaboration with AXENEO7, PLATFORM is very excited to present a solo exhibition of new work by Montreal based artist, Philippe Hamelin. Although the artist has exhibited work in Europe, South America and the United States, this exhibition will be Hamelin's first exhibition in Canada outside of Quebec
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    All of a sudden…

    When disaster strikes it can be undeniably hypnotizing. Perhaps this is because it feels like the impossible or unbelievable has happened and that the everyday normal has been completely changed. The comfort in this unthinkable moment is in knowing that "it" probably won't ever happen. Thus, imagining the notion of disaster allows us to look at ourselves beyond it towards a place of after. All of a sudden... investigates the interstitial space between a disaster and the subsequent place of after. Using disaster as the initial starting point, the work in this exhibition explores possibilities of renewal, waiting, longing, foreshadowing, as well as feelings of confusion and anticipation. These products of disaster necessarily do not all happen at once, however are starting points for navigating the aftermath, a place of rebuilding or one of surrender.
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