Take a voyage into space in the next exhibition at the New Media Gallery.
The gallery is getting set to open its space_ exhibition on Thursday, June 23.
The exhibition presents four works by five artists, including Turner Prize winner Elizabeth Price and Turner Prize nominees Jane and Louise Wilson, as well as American artists David Bowen and Kristina Estell.
“This is an exhibition connected with space, that great void, and our relationship with bodies in space. The works in this exhibition track moving bodies in space, monitoring passing time, great distances and a repetition of recorded histories,” a press release says. “There is a focus on celestial bodies and manmade objects sent out into space. Together the works remind us of places and objects that are only a memory now, and how once there was a race for space.”
Estell’s work, Voyager-One, traces the real-time path of the Voyager-One space probe that was launched in 1977 and entered extra-terrestrial space in 1990. The distance of the probe from earth is translated into colour shifts experienced through a tiny light in a completely dark room.
Bowen’s SPACEJUNK consists of five robots who trace the path of the oldest piece of space junk circling overhead. “The robots move together in real time when they detect a signal, as if in a mechanical ballet,” the release says.
Star City is a four-channel video installation by Jane and Louise Wilson that explores the Yuri Gagarin Cosmonaut Training Centre, where cosmonauts have lived and trained since the 1960s.
Also in the exhibition is Price’s Sunlight, a two-channel video installation that incorporates thousands of glass plate negatives of the sun and explores the paths and attitudes of the celestial and human body.
An opening reception is set for Thursday, June 23 from 7 to 9 p.m. All are welcome. For more information, see www.newmediagallery.ca, or drop in to the Anvil Centre at 777 Columbia St. to check it out.
