Opening Reception: Friday, 16 October, 8:00 pmArtist & Curator Chat: Saturday, 17 October, between 7:00 and 9:00 pm (a Nocturne event)
Photographs, projections and artifacts, evoking family history and Italian-Canadian immigrant experience, make up the next exhibition at Saint Mary's University Art Gallery. Somewhere In Between is the first mid-career survey of photography and video by Toronto-based artist Sara Angelucci. Bridging the transition from chemical to digital photo processing, she uses the technical capacities of both to recapture ephemeral moments of her family’s history. Angelucci’s practice hinges on her affection for amateur film and photography, and the use of each medium as a form of vernacular record keeping. She uses family photos, documents, and Super 8 film footage of outings and events to revisit the discrete moments that shaped her upbringing. By reusing and even recasting familiar scenarios from original documents, Somewhere In Between draws a parallel between the journeys of the artist’s family – as Italian-Canadians, as immigrants, as workers and as tourists – and the proliferation of photography and film throughout the post-war decades.
The exhibition brings together key works produced during the past decade, including: She Crossed the Sea (2001), Stillness (2003), Al Riverso (2004), Everything in my Father’s Wallet / Everything in My Wallet (2005), the poignant video installation Questions She’ll Never Answer (2002) and a selection of recently restaged film stills titled Regular 8 (2009).
Sara Angelucci is no stranger to Halifax, having received her MFA from the Nova Scotia College of Art and Design (NSCAD University). A photo and video artist living in Toronto, she completed her BA. at the University of Guelph. Angelucci has exhibited her photography at Le Mois de la Photo (Montreal), Ace Art (Winnipeg), Vu (Quebec City), Toronto Photographer's Workshop, MacLaren Art Centre (Barrie), Art Gallery of Hamilton and Richmond Art Gallery. Her videos have also been screened across Canada and included in festivals in Europe and Hong Kong. She has participated in artist residencies at NSCAD, the Banff Centre, and Biz-Art (Shanghai). Sara Angelucci is represented by the Wynick/Tuck Gallery and V Tape in Toronto. (Website: www.sara-angelucci.ca)
Sara Angelucci: Somewhere In Between is organised and circulated by Cambridge Galleries. A 28-page publication accompanies the exhibition, with essays by exhibition curator Ivan Jurakic and by Shirley Madill.
The exhibition appears at Saint Mary's University Art Gallery from 17 October through 22 November 2009, and opens with a public reception on Friday evening, 16 October at 8:00 pm. Refreshments will be served. The artist and curator will be present to speak informally with visitors on Saturday, 17 October between 7:00 and 9:00 pm as part of the city-wide visual-arts event, Nocturne. All events are free of charge and open to the public at Saint Mary’s University Art Gallery in the Loyola Building, 5865 Gorsebrook Avenue.
All exhibitions and programmes at Saint Mary's University Art Gallery receive significant support from the Canada Council for the Arts.
| Date : | 16 octobre 2009 |
| Heure : | 20:00 - 22:00 |
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