West Gallery Iconic Places, Artistic Traces - works from the permanent collection Curated by Tim van Wijk See depictions of place represented by in the permanent collection of Gallery 2. From the iconic to the ironic, the way artists depict locality is both deeply personal and more widely contextual.
Fogg Gallery Observer Observed Megan Krauss Documenting a changing relationship with landscape, Observer Observed presents panoramic photomontages of popular tourist locations. Multiple images taken from the same vantage point show the sheer volume of visitors, collectively documenting their individual experiences. Reid Gallery Fine Line: Check Check Ian Johnston Starting with the premise that consumption culture is an obsessive and compulsive behaviour, Fine Line: Check Check presents a looping series of vignettes repetitively screened in fragment and whole with an accompanying audio score. The project harnesses the conditioning and the knee-jerk emotional responses associated with visual and auditory cues from silent film to gaming.