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Art Gallery of Greater Victoria new exhibit blends art, technology, and the forest

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For most people, the serene forest and modern technology occupy two sides of a rarely overlapping Venn diagram. But an upcoming exhibit at the Art Gallery of Greater Victoria (AGGV) is hoping to blur that distinction through photography, video, and digital art.

Supernatural: Art, Technology and the Forest, opening May 19, explores how photography and camera-based technologies shape our idea and understanding of the forest.

Artists featured in the exhibition use photography and film, alongside some cool computer generated imaging and 3D technologies to suggest a reconsidered approach to our relationship with the trees.

“The exhibition explores how artists working in the realm of photo and video art are showing us new ways to look at the forest, expanding our understanding of forest environments in surprising and significant ways,” says AGGV curator, Haema Sivanesan.

Unique and powerful works

Supernatural features eight artists and one artistic collaboration, with each piece bringing something unique to the exhibition.

Trudi Lynn Smith, for example, builds old-style bellows cameras by hand to observe what washes up to become part of shoreline ecology (such as along Dallas Road) as what she describes as “fugitive forests.”

And Leslie Sujir uses large-format IMAX cameras to create Forest Breath, which “records and expands an instant in the Walbran forest.”

The exhibition runs until Sept. 3, 2018. To celebrate the opening, the Gallery is available to all at the Public Open House on Saturday, May 19 from 10 AM to 5 PM.

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Myles Sauer
Former staff editor and writer at Victoria Buzz.

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