CSPACE KING EDWARD

Encroachment

Exhibition dates: February 24 - March 9
Gallery hours: Monday to Saturday 8:00-20:00
Opening reception: February 29, 17:00-21:00

By contrasting images of natural habitats with parks and recreation fields, Encroachment uses the metaphor of “the commons” to explore the cultural values of public green spaces. In historical terms, common lands were public and open to anyone (usually the less fortunate) to access and glean resources where they could. In our current era of food insecurity, where cities are only days away from running out of supplies, is our current policy of promoting recreational fields and parks the best use of the modern-day commons? Has our desire for entertainment and activity encroached on healthy, food-producing habitat? Or is the balance adequate, with wild areas proliferating at the edges of creeks and streams, pathways and infrastructure, forever having to be chopped back from infiltrating our parks and soccer fields? Through the use of digital double exposure, we invite the viewer to contemplate their reaction to this deliberate juxtaposition of two very different visions of the public commons.
Exhibiting artists are Samantha Chrysanthou and Darwin Wiggett.

This exhibition is wheelchair accessible.
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Calgary, AB