Past Exhibitions

    It’s Really About Nothing At All

    It’s Really About Nothing At All is a multi-media exhibition that elaborates on the compulsion of looking, from the perspective of a perpetual urban wanderer. A series of discarded soda cup lids with straws photographed in situ depict a kind of obsessive game played by the artist on his rambles through the city, with explicit […]
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    Base Instincts

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    Lakeshore

    Lakeshore consists of an ongoing series of one hundred 50 x 75-cm colour photographs with short texts or images painted on them in oils. The photographs serve as supports for the painting, and depict landscape, architecture and a variety of other subjects. The texts are predominantly in either English or French (as well as in German […]
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    Rhopography

    Rhopography, an archaic term frequently used in the 19th century for still life painting,  derives from the Greek word rhopos (trivial objects, small wares, trifles). Through constructing still lifes of dead insects and food scraps, Joachim Froese’s work refers specifically to the historical tradition of Flemish and Spanish still life painting. His black and white photographs […]
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    Full Circle: The circular image revisited

    PLATFORM ispleased to present Full Circle: The circular image revisited by Victoria-based artist Bob Preston. For the past two years, Bob Preston has been photographing with self-constructed cameras, which are similar to the first Kodaks from the 1890s in that they take circular images, have fixed focus lenses, one shutter speed, one aperture, and no […]
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    Annual Members’ Exhibition

    You are invited to join in the inaugural festivities at Platform, as we hold our first exhibition in our new main floor location in the Artspace building. The members’ show promises to be big and exciting as we have received an overwhelming response to our call for submissions. In addition, we will host a member […]
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    Interiors & Looking Out/Looking in

    Andrew Forsters’ Interiors series is comprised of “out of focus” colour photographs that were taken in museums and other exhibition spaces. By the blurring of the images, the specifics of who, where and what are eliminated so that they become more about the general conditions of looking and experiencing culture than about specific detail and […]
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    have clean hands

    Winnipeg artist, Derek Dunlop presents an exhibition which began as an investigation into his family’s super 8 archive. The footage marks the very beginning of the invention and validation of family and class through the forces and structure of technology- when many Canadians could indulge in recording memories and building their own family archive. The […]
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    Somewhere

    At first glance, the landscapes of Somewhere seem to be familiar, like those we see when driving, or passing through margins of an urban space. However, it only takes a moment, when looking at these barren landscapes to feel troubled by their mood and intrigued by their details. Isabelle Hayeur focuses her attention on “non-sites”: […]
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    Personae

    As part of Platform’s mandate to showcase leading edge artists who challenge popular perceptions of contemporary photographic practices, we are pleased to present Personae by Montréal artist, Pierre Dalpé. In this ongoing body of work, Pierre Dalpé digitally manipulates scenarios in which the image of one individual is doubled or tripled to create a set […]
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    The Bestiary: Instincts of the Herd

    PLATFORM is pleased to present “The Bestiary” by Calgary based artist, Mireille Perron. “The Bestiary: Instincts of the Herd” is inspired by the late Argentinean author, Jorge Luis Borges’ fictive classification system. In “The Language of John Wilkins” Other Inquisitions 1937-52, Borges explores the incongruity of classification. “The Bestiary: Instincts of the Herd” consists of sixty-two […]
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    Eye Candy

    The Floating Gallery is pleased to present Eye Candy, an exhibition of photographs by Colwyn Griffiths investigating food as a communicative agent of political, biological and societal alienation. Eye Candy is comprised of photographs of landscapes constructed with processed foods. Following a stay in Japan, Griffith’s recent works focus on the fabrication of increasingly artificial […]
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    Vanishing Point

    Dobson’s exhibition, entitled “Vanishing Point,” comprises a series of large-scale images printed on transparent film and suspended throughout the gallery from above. The viewer’s relationship and proximity to the works is significantly altered by this presentation. Rather than taking a passive position in front of wall-mounted works, one is obliged to move around and about […]
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    Bookworms

    These photographs work on several levels. On one level, theydocument the nocturnal activities of bookworms, those tiny, shy creatures that live in books, read the stories and develop ways to help the characters in the stories. The bookworms discuss the best way to help a character in trouble and then construct whatever is necessary to […]
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