COLOURS of SUMMER
Reception: N/A
July 2 - August 2
Summer in Saskatchewan is a beautiful time of year filled with bright pops of colour. Stop by the gallery during the month of July to enjoy a group exhibition inspired by the palette of the season. Featuring new and recent works by a selection of gallery artists including Kathy Bradshaw, Cory Chad, Robert Christie, Heather Cline, Louise Cook, Lorenzo Dupuis, Terry Fenton, Kelly Goerzen, Lynne Graham, Greg Hardy, Jane Harington, Dorothy Knowles, Sandra Ledingham, Nancy Lowry, Jodi Miller, Rebecca Perehudoff, Lorna Russell, Allen Sapp, and Yuka Yamaguchi.Gabriela García-Luna: INEFFABLE
Reception: Saturday July 19, 2 - 4 PM
July 2 - August 2
Art Placement is delighted to present INEFFABLE, an exhibition of recent works by Gabriela García-Luna. Born in Mexico City, García-Luna has resided in Canada for more than two decades, and has been based in Saskatoon since 2018. Her decades-long career is primarily in the realm of photography, in which she blends digital and analog approaches, in combination with drawing, printmaking, video, and installation. Garcia-Luna has been the recipient of numerous grants and awards and her work can be found in public and private collections nationally and internationally. Her work has been presented in solo and group exhibitions throughout Canada and abroad in Mexico, United Kingdom, and India. This is her first solo exhibition in Saskatoon at Art Placement.

"For me, imagination is synonymous with discovery. To imagine, to discover, to carry our bit of light to the living penumbra where all the infinite possibilities, forms, and numbers exist. I do not believe in creation but in discovery, and I don’t believe in the seated artist but in the one who is walking the road. The imagination is a spiritual apparatus, a luminous explorer of the world it discovers. The imagination fixes and gives clear life to fragments of the invisible reality where man is stirring... The imagination hovers over reason the way fragrance hovers over a flower, wafted on the breeze but tied, always, to the ineffable center of its origin."

- Federico Garcia Lorca

Gabriela Garcia-Luna’s most recent works are not traditional photographs in the documentarian sense; rather, they are photo-based collages that poetically explore the complex and often unknowable aspects of feeling and remembrance. The camera is Garcia-Luna’s journal, a tool for gathering snippets of everyday life--the people, places, and objects she encounters. She mines this visual archive, breaking down and recombining image fragments into ethereal, constellation-like compositions where delicate, organic forms seem to float, suspended in an ambiguous spatial realm. Garcia-Luna plays with scale and the layering of opaque and semi-translucent forms to create a subtly shifting sense of expansion and contraction. The effect, like memory and emotion, is elusive, intangible, and fleeting.

In an essay that accompanied Garcia-Luna’s recent solo exhibition at the Moose Jaw Museum & Art Gallery, Troy Gronsdahl writes:

‘Compiling a large personal collection of plant photographs, Garcia-Luna’s archive is a register of personal meaning, emotion and memory. She works within modes of representation that approximate the complexity of experience: “I think our reality is that complex where we have different layers of existence, and all are merged and interconnected. The work starts as a photographic memory, so to speak. And the memory, it is a memory of experience. It's not a representation per se, it's more like a notetaking of a moment, an experience that carries emotion for me.”’

Click here to read the complete essay on the Moose Jaw Museum & Art Gallery website.