Heather Cline: Quiet Stories from Canadian Places - Canada 150
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Moose Jaw Museum & Art Gallery 461 Langdon Crescent, Crescent Park, Moose Jaw, Saskatchewan S6H 0X6
Heather Cline "Meeting Places," 2016
acrylic panel, 36" x 48"
Cline’s series of paintings and new media works, entitled Quiet Stories from Canadian Places, a touring exhibition in 2017 in response to Canada’s 150th anniversary celebrations, explores shifting the traditional role that painting has played in documenting history from official portraiture and pivotal historical moments to documenting Canadian places that are significant to everyday people and simple moments. It also explores how the public interacts with the work creating a space of active viewing as the public reflects on the paintings in relation to the audio content.
The project involves interviewing local residents in communities across Canada, collecting personal and regional history as an audio component. The resulting exhibition will feature salon style groupings of small to mid-scale paintings of different locations across Canada, including Moose Jaw, while the audio component will create sound spots that viewers will enter as they view the paintings. Being exhibited in MJM&AG’s museum from March 3 to May 14, the exhibition creates a space for contemporary art, oral traditions of storytelling and history to intersect.