Gwen MacGregor: GOING
May 13, 2009 — June 20, 2009
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Opening reception and catalogue launch, Wednesday May 13, 6 to 8 p.m.
Known for her sculptural installations, photographs and video, Gwen MacGregor’s focus is on her immediate environment. Whether at home or abroad she observes small dramas and overlooked details, revealing them as subtle markers of the fleeting moment. Ever present but also elusive, time challenges representation only becoming tangible in its effects.
Entitled “Going”, this exhibition explores the theme of time through natural phenomena. MacGregor brings photographs and video together in a relationship intended to affect the viewer’s experience of time as a layered unfolding rather than a linear progression. The photographs document the surreal results of a freak weather pattern that transformed the landscape over a single day while her videos – one a new collaboration with Lewis Nicholson and the other recently made during a residency in France - explore the transformation of her subjects as lighting conditions change.
The recently published catalogue for MacGregor’s exhibition Disappearing Things (2008, Rodman Hall, Brock University, St. Catharines) will be launched at the opening of Going. This fully illustrated publication, designed by Lewis Nicholson, captures MacGregor’s work through images interspersed with a meditative text by Jacob Wren.
Gwen MacGregor’s work was seen most recently in Maps in Doubt, a collaboration with Sandra Rechico curated by critic and scholar Dan Adler for Mercer Union, Toronto, in 2008.
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Gwen MacGregor