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Last Day: Amalie Atkins at the College and Kenderdine Galleries
A performance and two exhibitions
Exhibition Dates
College Art Galleries
AMALIE ATKINS: we live on the edge of disaster and imagine we are in a musical
May 22 – August 1, 2015
curated by Kent Archer
Kenderdine Art Gallery
AMALIE ATKINS: WUNDERMÄRCHEN
June 16 - August 7, 2015
curated by Leah Taylor
Convocation Hall
AMALIE ATKINS: live performance
Friday, July 24 at 7:00pm
Reception to follow at the Kenderdine Art Gallery
Set against the luminous landscapes of southern and central Saskatchewan, Atkins' multi-layered narratives present bittersweet sagas of grief, joy and transformation that linger in the memory like half-remembered fairy tales. Characters in the guise of wolves, bears, crows and other creatures populate her imaginative worlds and engage with human protagonists, enacting scenarios that are both everyday and otherworldly.
With we live on the edge of disaster and imagine we are in a musical, Atkins introduces an all female cast of characters which includes, among others, two-headed sisters, braid harvesters and a troupe of roller-skating Valkyries.
With a background in textiles from the Alberta College of Art and Design, Atkins' films have an immediate tactile appeal, which is manifest in the handmade fabric costumes and props, as well as in the felt pavilions which she has created to house her projections.
A Saskatoon artist with a growing reputation for her films and video installations, Atkins' cinematic gifts have been recognized recently in national and international survey exhibitions, including Oh, Canada!, a 2012 landmark survey of contemporary Canadian Art at the Massachusetts Museum of Contemporary Art.
This exhibition will highlight the expansion of her practice into installation by featuring pavilions housing her two most widely seen works, Three Minute Miracle (2008) and Scenes from a Secret World (2009), along with projection-installations based on a major new film: we live on the edge of disaster and imagine we are in a musical.
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