Artists
Exhibition Dates
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Scott Massey, Sea of Humanity, 2024, archival inkjet print on composite panel, 56 x 152 cm. Courtesy of the Artist.
Scott Massey, Work from The Distance of a Thing series, 2024, laser etched photographs on anthracite, 10 x 30 cm. Courtesy of the Artist.
Annie Briard, Land in Land I, 2024, archival inkjet print 27.94 x 35.56 cm. Courtesy of the Artist and Royale Projects.
Annie Briard, Landscape and Propaganda from the 9 postcards series, 2020, inkjet print on card stock, 10 x 15 cm. Courtesy of the Artist and Royale Projects.
Scott Massey, Work from The Distance of a Thing series, 2024, laser etched photographs on anthracite, 10 x 30 cm. Courtesy of the Artist.
Scott Massey, Work from The Distance of a Thing series, 2024, laser etched photographs on anthracite, 10 x 30 cm. Courtesy of the Artist.
Scott Massey, Sea of Humanity, 2024, archival inkjet print on composite panel, 56 x 152 cm. Courtesy of the Artist.
Scott Massey, Work from The Distance of a Thing series, 2024, laser etched photographs on anthracite, 10 x 30 cm. Courtesy of the Artist.
Annie Briard, Land in Land I, 2024, archival inkjet print 27.94 x 35.56 cm. Courtesy of the Artist and Royale Projects.
Annie Briard, Landscape and Propaganda from the 9 postcards series, 2020, inkjet print on card stock, 10 x 15 cm. Courtesy of the Artist and Royale Projects.
Scott Massey, Work from The Distance of a Thing series, 2024, laser etched photographs on anthracite, 10 x 30 cm. Courtesy of the Artist.
Scott Massey, Work from The Distance of a Thing series, 2024, laser etched photographs on anthracite, 10 x 30 cm. Courtesy of the Artist.
Selected
A General Theory of Relative Ground
Opening Reception
Saturday, April 5, 3 – 6 pm
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Landscape is a construct and its meaning is derived from the beholder. This expanded photography exhibition pairs new works by Vancouver-based artists Annie Briard and Scott Massey, each exploring the landscape as form and as foil through their lenses.
Burdened as it is with connotations of nineteenth-century colonial claiming, expansion, and resource extraction, landscape photography has become a tainted genre. Perhaps a considered shift in our temporal perspective will provide a new relational outlook which might allow us to pass a duty of care along to future generations. What if we listened to the land without the urge to control it? The land speaks slowly over decades, centuries – epochs beyond human reckoning. Its metamorphosis is slow and prolonged, each changing period ushering in a new arrangement of form, of relationships, of growth and decay.
Premiering new expanded photography works, this exhibition asks why the landscape should matter now, in the midst of all we face, and posits the importance of our continued relationship with our environment.
