Past Exhibitions

    ALTERNATOR

    Today we can agree on one thing, things aren’t what they used to be. To some, it seems, the world has been turned up side down. Such a sense of confusion is prevalent in the recent photographic series of Winnipeg artists Dominique Rey and Collin Zipp. Choosing to engage with the all-encompassing question of climate […]
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    utopia suite disco

    What is the connection between utopian philosophy and disco, which is remembered as a subculture that produced a historical moment of pure hedonism? Echoing coloured disco lights, Utopia Suite Disco’s four groups of moving images are colour-coded: red for passion, green for hope, yellow for fear, and blue for sorrow. Embedded in each video loop […]
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    Art and Cold Cash

    Art and Cold Cash is a multi-layered creative investigation that connects contemporary art to discourses surrounding money in a series of artistic activities and experiments. Jack Butler, Sheila Butler, and Patrick Mahon are artists whose practices function manly in southern Canada and internationally, and we have, since April 2004, been working in collaboration with writer […]
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    BETWEEN TIMES

    In these works, Jason Dee investigates the revealing and recording functions behind film and photography. He explores the ways narrative, medium, and technology work to re-establish physical existence, meaning, and cultural production. In a profoundly strange and disorienting way, Dee’s work takes the phenomenal and ontological world of classical narrative and early cinema and juxtaposes twentieth-century […]
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    DEATHS | MEMORIALS | BIRTHS

    Defacement, expunging, obliteration, removal: these terms can apply both to DeFreitas’ initial reworking of the announcements from The Toronto Star and to the effects of death or loss. Deaths/Memorials/Births began as an installation of pages taken from that section of the Toronto Star. DeFreitas cut out all but the page headings and the black borders that […]
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    When The Mood Strikes Us…

    When the Mood Strikes Us… is comprised of a small group of Canadian artists with international reputations who employ photo-based media as part of their artistic practice. This project explores the poetics of altered states as a means of escape, forgetfulness, indulgence and wonderment vis-à-vis artistic production. The term ‘altered’ may refer to a variety […]
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    Staged

    Theatres are spaces that breed anxiety.  Perhaps it is the notion of being confined to a space with strangers, or the absurdity of participating in a communal event that has very little socialization beyond making us feel less alone.  Although entertaining on a sensory and psychological level the cinematic experience is completely illogical on a […]
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    home bodies

    home bodies is a photo/video-based installation by Larry Glawson, installed in the historic two-storey space at 284 William Avenue. Begun in 2002, a prototype version of Glawson’s home bodies was shown in the Art Lab at the University of Western Ontario. Some of the photos and one of the videos have appeared in a number […]
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    Prairiescape

    Prairiescape is an online exhibition on view for the duration of a year. The three pieces making up Prairiescape are marked by the commonality of mapping. Ranging from literal to conceptual, the work of each of the artists, KC Adams, Richard Dyck and Erika Lincoln, uses mapping to explore the prairie landscape and its relationships with technology. These […]
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    The Laughing Dress

    PLATFORM centre for photographic + digital arts is very pleased to present The Laughing Dress, a performance/installation by Lori Weidenhammer + Peter Courtemanche. This special exhibition is presented as part of Video Pool Media Arts Centre’s 25th Anniversary commissioning project and co-curated by Sigrid Dahle + Grant Guy. The Laughing Dress by Lori Weidenhammer + […]
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    Residual

    Lynda Gammon has built for us the latest editions in her long-standing and outstanding and nervy series of recombinant sculptural assemblages known under the rubric Salvaged. These works emerged out of a growing grumble with sculpture and a turn toward photography. Inspired and triggered by a spell in Rotterdam, working in an artists’ studio complex […]
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    Pictures from (Inside)

    Hines’ dedication to his practice has resulted in an elegant and haunting body of work, which captures in-between moments that speak to emotional connection and detachment as well as intimacy and distance between the members of his immediate family. At the confluence between physical and psychological impediment, Richard Hines seeks to map the familial dynamic […]
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    No Fixed Territory

    PLATFORM: centre for photographic + digital arts is pleased to present No Fixed Territory, a two-person exhibition featuring landscapes by Maegan Hill-Carroll and Richard Holden, curated by Petra Halkes. In No Fixed Territory, Halkes contextualizes the landscape photography of Hill-Carroll and Holden in terms of the panorama and the open-ended archive; two approaches to the […]
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