June 16 – July 16, 2011
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Black Box, 2010. Copyright: Sarah Anne Johnson / Stephen Bulger Gallery[/column]
[column width=”50%” padding=”5%”]STEPHEN BULGER GALLERY
1026 Queen Street West
Toronto, Ontario M6J 1H6
T: 416.504.0575
E: info@bulgergallery.com
www.bulgergallery.com
During October 2009, Sarah Anne Johnson participated in an artist’s residency in the Norwegian territory of the ArcticCircle. Each of the twelve days at sea the group visited a different site on land, ranging from untouched vistas of pure landscape to abandoned mining camps. The photographs she took have become the basis for her new body of work entitled “Arctic Wonderland.” The imagery is celebratory with an ironic underside. Fireworks, confetti, cheerleaders and banners inhabit the landscape. Wonderland has the double meaning of referring to the brilliant beauty of the landscape, but also the absurdity of some of the notions of how to colonize this place.
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