EXPOSURE FENCE: PEOPLE & PLACE

Olympic Plaza (outdoors)
February 2 - February 19

The Exposure Photography Festival presents EXPOSURE FENCE: PEOPLE & PLACE at Calgary’s Olympic Plaza, in partnership with Chinook Blast! Festival (Calgary).

Curated by Beth Kane, People & Place presents the work of four visual artists based in Treaty 6 and 7 territories, also known as Southern Alberta. The work and perspectives of this dynamic group of exhibiting artists provide us with both celebratory and critical visual insights regarding the complex, intertwined relationships between People & Place within these traditional territories.

Exposure’s free outdoor exhibition activates an accessible public space, enabling new opportunities for increased engagement with the art of photography and visual storytelling. Working with our exhibition partners, we amplify impactful visual narratives, offer novel insights, and connect artists to diverse audiences.

Open: 24/7
Access: Location is wheelchair accessible. Exhibition is child friendly.

EXHIBITING ARTISTS

ᓂᑎᓴᓂᐢᑫᐧᐤ | nitisaniskwew | my sister, Jasmine Piper & Danielle Piper
These collages use photos from our individual travels to Métis Crossing and Kootenay Lake, as well as drawings we have made practicing nêhiyawêwin. As sisters, we have supported and leaned on one another all our lives. We have also learned, created and become artists alongside each other. Recently we have moved apart, and we are mourning our time living together, but we will always have this sacred connection.
We are together in this life, even when we are far apart.
Our relations bind us in reciprocity
We are present on the land and together
as iskwewak with her
we sustain the divine heartbeat of life
We have each other

IRRESOLUTE BELONGING, Raeann Kit-Yee Cheung
IRRESOLUTE BELONGING is a psycho-geographical exploration of a consciousness that merges a Chinese and Canadian existence. Having adopted a western lifestyle as a child, I wrestle at times with concurrent and competing perspectives of the world. This kind of flip-flopping between viewpoints can be unsettling at times, and visualizing spaces symbolic of a composite Chinese Canadian culture is one way to embrace the enigmatic psyche that strangely identifies with both and neither ethnicity at the same time.

Slurry, Brady Fullerton
slur·ry
/ˈslərē/
noun
a semiliquid mixture, typically of fine particles of manure, cement, or coal suspended in water.

Slurry is a project documenting the people and places I encountered in my years in the concrete cutting industry. These images range from the exceedingly banal and ugly to the overwhelmingly beautiful. Between these extremes are a group of people suspended in this milieu. While this project is an attempt to document the lives of those working in this industry, the photographs also explore concepts of masculinity, mental health, depression and the celebration of beauty found in the quotidian.

Homecoming, Brayden Kowalczuk
I've always had a desire to move away from the Midwest ever since I was a teen. I figured moving to LA or NYC would solve some of the issue's I had here. It wasn't until I started going out and approaching strangers for their portrait that I found just how incredible the people here were. They weren't prominent figures or celebrities-they were something much better. They were ham radio enthusiasts who carried around walkie talkies with them, retired figure skaters, or motel maintenance workers. Although most of the people don't know it at the time, homecoming is ultimately an artistic collaboration.

LAND ACKNOWLEDGMENT

In the spirit of reconciliation, we acknowledge that the Exposure Fence: People & Place exhibition and Exposure Photography Festival takes place on the traditional Treaty 7 territory of the Blackfoot confederacy: Siksika, Kainai, Piikani as well as the Îyâxe Nakoda and Tsuut’ina nations. We acknowledge that this territory is home to the Métis Nation of Alberta, Region 3 within the historical Northwest Métis homeland. We would also like to acknowledge that the Exposure Photography Festival is situated on land adjacent to where the Bow River meets the Elbow River, and the traditional Blackfoot name of this place is “Moh’kins’tsis”, which we now call the City of Calgary. Finally, we honour and acknowledge all Nations, indigenous and non, who live, work and play in Moh’kins’tsis and help steward this land and honour and celebrate this territory.

exhibition partners

This exhibition is produced by Exposure Photography Festival and funded by Chinook Blast.

Olympic Plaza, 228 8 Ave SE, Calgary, AB T2P 2M5