Nov 9 - Dec 7
Bleeding Heart Art Space, 11203 68 St NW, Edmonton.
Open Saturdays 11 AM - 3 PM*.
Open weekdays by appointment only.
Free admission; donations accepted.
All-ages welcome.
*Extended hours Saturday Dec 7: the gallery will remain open until 6 PM, between the artist talks and the Film Night event.
Events:
Public reception Saturday Nov 2, 6-9 PM. Drop-in style, with light refreshments.
Artist talks with Freyja Catton & Ilan Domnich Saturday Dec 7, 3 PM. Free to attend. All are welcome.
Tamara Deedman, Jordan Pearson, Lindsay Knox: Reliquaries
main gallery
Through the creative use of painting, drawing, print-media, and soft sculpture, we examine how objects; collected or abandoned, are vessels for narratives contrived by their collector. We are examining these “reliquaries” and how they embody adoration, memory, trauma, intentions, grief and comfort. We intend to circulate notions of slow attention, care and processing through our own personal archives that we have individually deemed important. We intend to circulate notions of healing and processing through the act of collection - simultaneously priceless treasures and hoarded trash.
Freyja Catton: The Apathecary
Installation Room
Freyja Catton’s installation is a whimsical and existential series of glass bottles and drawings with negative emotions on the labels. In production over the course of a decade, The Apathecary series is inspired by label designs from the vintage “snake oil” elixirs from 1850-1920, the bottle scene in Alice In Wonderland, gallows humour, and the concept of laughter as medicine. Humour plays a crucial role in diffusing tension and encouraging community and support across social demographics.
The concept for this entymologic collection emerged with the wordplay between apothecary and apathy. The bottles vary in size and shape, and the wordplay between labels and the absence of physical material inside makes it ambiguous whether the bottles are intended to preserve “bottled emotions”, or to provide the remedy.
Ilan Domnich: Entomologia et Natura
Installation Room
Ilan Domnich’s installation features insects preserved in shadowbox frames surrounded by a wondrous diversity of organic materials in a series titled Entomologia et Natura.
As an entomologist, Domnich aims to display insects in a way that draws in viewers to look closer at these unique creatures. Those that may feel repelled by insects may learn to appreciate the small animals that have huge impacts on ecosystems. The insects are sustainably sourced and rehydrated before being pinned and dried in pleasing poses, and adorned with materials from nature to accent their beauty. Viewers may recognize many of the natural materials that embellish these frames as they were collected from the river valley. The array of colours and shapes seen in these insects may seem fantastical to some, and are echoed in the diversity of plant life surrounding them.
Square design by Thore Clausen, with detail images (left to right) of Apathecary by Freyja Catton; “Actias luna” by Ilan Domnich; and “Baptism by Fire II” by Tamara Deedman. Images courtesy of the artists.