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Nostalgia for the Present, Max Blecher

“Staring at a fixed point on the wall, I occasionally have the feeling that I no longer know who or where I am. At such times, I experience the loss of my identity from a distance: I feel for a moment that I have become a complete stranger, this abstract personage and my real self vying for authenticity with equal strength.” —Max Blecher
The Portable Robert Frank

Truth is Frank’s nemesis; he admits to a fear of telling it at the same time that he recognizes, “somewhere the fearful truth seems to endure.” —Robert Enright
Ear Full

William Basinski, the Los Angeles-based experimental electronic composer, will be one of the guest composers at the 2017 New Music Festival. He will perform The Deluge, 2015, and will participate in the 12-Hour Drone Festival…
The Democratizer

Vancouver-based photographer, videographer and bookmaker Ho Tam is committed to the idea of a picture democracy. In his recent exhibition at Winnipeg’s Platform Centre for Photographic Art, he brought along only a quarter of the 400 images he had taken for a series called “Posers”…
Stoke Signals

If you were a regular gallery-goer and had wandered into the limestone-clad entrance to the Winnipeg Art Gallery’s Eckhardt Hall on the evening of November 18, you would have thought you had entered the wrong building…
The Stone Snake

Louis Bakó has been a presence in the Winnipeg art scene for 50 years. His family emigrated to Winnipeg in 1957, fleeing the revolution in Hungary. As a child, he had been interested in art and that dedication continued into his adult life…
The Intimate Idealogue

“It is strange that this image of our proximity, concerning as it does mere phosphate of calcium, should bestow a sense of peace. Yet it does. With you I can imagine a place where to be phosphate of calcium is enough.”

—John Berger
Gillian Wearing: The Art of Everyday Illumination

Gillian Wearing’s one-person show at the Tanya Bonakdar Gallery in May and June was called “People,” not a surprising choice for an artist who has located human stories at the centre of her practice throughout her career.
Willy Le Maitre
Les Rencontres de la Photographie
Public Studio
Annie MacDonell

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