This is an archived event from Culture Days 2022.
Images
Exhibition Reduced Space
In-person
Painting PhotographyDate and time
Location
R Harris house
10 Haviland street Charlottetown PEI
Charlottetown, PE
Access
Free.
Offered in English and French.
Has gender-neutral washrooms.
About
An overgrown garden in front of an abandoned house, a hedge gone wild, menacing the street passage, lawns taken over thyme, dandelions, wild carrot, an urban corner, momentarily spared the developer’s bulldozer, becomes a haven for birch, ash, spruce, maple, lilac, yarrow, golden rod…these ‘fields of liberty’ are the impetus for the paintings.
Landscape permeates documentary photography. Land-use policy transforms the land. The photos pursue these transformations: preserved spaces: ornithological, coastal reserves, where animal and plant species flourish, sanctuaries protected by natural deities. There are also the industrial wastelands, buildings abandoned for a time, and finally this community garden in an urban environment, several times displaced, where gardeners persevere and work their plot of land. The portraits presented here are like portraits of itinerant craftsmen.
We can consider this work as a plea for these ever reduced spaces.
Organizer
cullencruchetartworks
Diffusion of visual arts