TRUCK CONTEMPORARY ART
Between the Salt of the Sun and the Light of the Sea
Exhibition dates: January 10 - February 22
Gallery hours: Tuesday to Saturday 12:00-18:00
TRUCK Contemporary Art presents Between the Salt of the Sun and the Light of the Sea by Samuel de Lange. This exhibition departs from an open-ended research proposition: what could be revealed by taking the histories of salt and photography into mutual consideration? Explored through several cultural and material references, Between the Salt of the Sun and the Light of the Sea locates itself in the gaps and overlaps that form between a series of related subjects: the use of salt in early photographic experimentation, a 1948 book detailing the American salt industry as a way of understanding systems of exchange, distribution, and the rise of the power state, a salt mine refurbished to function as archival space, and objects that might bring other references into the conversation.
Samuel de Lange (Dutch-Canadian, born Woodstock, Canada) works with combinations of photographic material, moving image, cast objects, and furniture. Developed through a wide range of interests, but often using specific moments, places, or objects as points of departure, his work results in site-sensitive responses that are guided by considerations of the intersections between mass media, collective histories, social memory, and shared space. His recent research has looked at how ideas/acts of “preservation” can oscillate between conflicting forces of care and control.
This exhibition is wheelchair accessible.
The exhibition presented in the Main Space and TRUCK’s Parkade are wheelchair accessible. The U-Hall is not wheelchair accessible.
TRUCK Contemporary Art
2009 10 Avenue SW
Calgary, AB, T3C 0K4