Past Exhibitions

    soft ground

    The photographic works of Sarah Small and Elaine Stocki are treading on soft ground. Unflinchingly personal and emotionally charged, their images counteract two different tendencies in today’s photographic art making, specifically emotional detachment and obvious digital manipulation.  The expressive imagery of Small and Stocki, two emerging artists, appears remarkable – both conceptually and aesthetically – […]
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    Annual Members’ Exhibition

    Join us for the opening reception of PLATFORM’s Annual Members’ Exhibition. Members have been invited to show a piece of art in a medium of their choice, filling the gallery walls with a vast array of photo-based, digital, video art and more. With this year’s Members’ Exhibition coinciding with Winnipeg’s celebrated Fringe Theatre Festival, the talent […]
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    Magnetic

    The video installation and large format images that Matei Glass (Joseph Winterfield, b.1956) presents at Platform Gallery explore the tension between the personal and the political, forming a reflection on identities which cannot be mutually exclusive. Reception: Friday June 1, 7 to 10 pm Artist talk: Saturday July 9th,  2 pm
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    Vague Terrain

    Platform is proud to present a solo exhibition of large-scale photo works by local emerging artist, Lisa Stinner whose prints feature sparse man-made environments of the type often found at temporary Home and Garden shows. Vague Terrain, the exhibition title, is play on a French term “terrain vague” used by architects to refer to transitional […]
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    Hole in Amsterdam

    Jennifer Vosacek will exhibit 5 narrative videos, Marriage List, Caretaker Challenge, La Ruda, Hole in Amsterdam, and Rachel, Nevada, in her first Canadian exhibition, held at PLATFORM. Her videos examine her familial structure, specifically her obsessive mother, whom she describes as “extremely dominating and concerned with my life”. She inverts the innate power structure between […]
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    Pripyat Floors

    Since 1994 David McMillan has been photographing the Chernobyl Exclusion Zone, with particular interest in Pripyat, the largest population centre within the zone. With a population of 45 000 at the time of the accident, the city was once considered to be one of the most desirable places to live in the former Soviet Union, […]
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    The End of Scanning

    With Flower and Leaf Arrangements  by Susie Rempel Richard Dyck’s show The End of Scanning with Flower and Leaf Arrangements by Susie Rempel is, in some way, about using a flatbed scanner to explore pattern recognition and the way we organize information. Dyck first began producing scans with the systematic scanning of his own house. […]
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    PLATFORM Annual Members’ Exhibition

    PLATFORM is pleased to present our Annual Members’ Exhibition. Join us in celebrating the diversity in photographic practice happening in our community, and the talent at hand in PLATFORM’s membership. Come and meet the artists in the exhibition at one of our traditionally best attended openings. Image: PLATFORM Annual Members’ Exhibition, installation view, 2006.  
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    The Pit Bar, Dawson City

    Mining for Gold By cam bush The Canadian North is easily romanticized by someone who has never experienced it firsthand. Having never traveled more northernly than Dauphin, Manitoba, I am probably guiltier than most of falling prey to colonial mythologies of the great, untamed hinterlands. And though I confess to an almost total ignorance of […]
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    To Hold One’s Breath / Retenir son souffle

    PLATFORM Gallery and Photomathon of Montreal present a fresh look at the genre of portrait photography in To Hold one’s Breath. British artists, Danny Treacy and Emma Critchley take very different approaches to creating intriguing and disturbing portraits that disrupt a sense of time and space. Beautiful yet uncomfortable portraits are constructed by Emma Critchley, […]
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    I Know What I See

    Manitoba School of Art Photography Thesis Exhibition
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    Tree Planting

    Planting trees in Manitoba is a rite of passage for many young adults in Canada. Johnson has participated in this activity and has made it the subject of this project in which she combines photographs she shot during the course of her summer sojourns, and sculptural figures and groups in constructed tableaux which are built […]
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    you’re all that I ever think about

    PLATFORM is pleased to host Meera Margaret Singh in her first solo exhibition; You’re All That I Ever Think About. This series of Meera’s most recent C-prints creates an atmosphere that elicits a sense of loss or vulnerability in relationships, be that between individuals and/or the spaces they occupy. Despite the fact that certain images […]
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    HO

    First inspired by the surreal setting of British Columbia, Toni Hafkenscheid blurs the lines between fact and fiction by exploring various typically awe-inspiring landscapes which he describes as “bizarre and almost fake” in his exhibition HO. Named after the scale of model train sets, his photographs which are taken from real life vistas, resemble the […]
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