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Brenda Pelkey: Haunts

Brenda Pelkey: Memento Mori
Brenda Pelkey: Memento Mori

Brenda Pelkey. Memento Mori 1996-99 (detail). Laminated Ilfochrome on aluminum, 127 x 101.6 cm. Collection of the Canadian Museum for Contemporary Photography.
20 Oct 2001 – 21 Nov 2001

Presented in connection with Photopolis, the Halifax festival of photography

Formerly a documentary photographer, Saskatoon resident Brenda Pelkey turned in 1994 to a category of subject matter that currently manifests itself spatially as landscape–pyschic landscape. The exhibition is composed of large-format Ilfochrome prints (1996-2001), some grouped in panoramic assemblages, others incorporating cryptic text fragments that hint at tragedy. The most recent were photographed in the vicinity of Havre Boucher, Nova Scotia, a former homeplace that Pelkey revisited in 2000.

None of the fields, forests or seashores contain figures. Photographed at night (or at twilight with a long exposure), Pelkey’s eerily claustrophic landscapes are illuminated with movie lights. The unnatural light and deep shadows transform these ordinary locales into the mise-en-scènes for melodramas. Their already heightened ambience is further dramatized in selected works by the presence of a muted audio component.

Brenda Pelkey: HauntsExhibition catalogue
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Exhibition Travels
Art Gallery of Peterborough, Ontario, 8 February to 31 March 2002.

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Brenda Pelkey: Forest IIBrenda Pelkey: Memento MoriBrenda Pelkey: Orchard   


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