Reception for the Artist: Friday, February 24, 5-9pm
The Stephen Bulger Gallery is pleased to present “Canadian Photographs”, our first solo exhibition of work by Geoffrey James, one of Canada’s pre-eminent photographers.
For the past six years, James has travelled throughout the country confronting the many realities of Canadian life. The project promises to come to fruition in 2017, the year of the nation’s sesquicentennial. “Canadian Photographs” explores the lyrical possibilities of everyday life. Canada is glimpsed from a train window, seen at a demolition derby, or a high-school prom. The photographs bear witness to Canada’s past as a dominion while also looking at the sometimes provisional way the future is being built.
James’ colour photographs display an uncanny wit that isolates innocent moments, seemingly banal locations, and speaks volumes about our nation’s precarious identity. Seen together, this chronicle of the present is a telling document of who we are by showing us how we live, offering an opportunity to ponder where we might go from here.
Image Credit: From the train, Montreal, 2015, © Geoffrey James / Courtesy of Stephen Bulger Gallery
