SARAH FULLER: My Banff
May 28-August 7, 2011
Ed, 2010.
Digital Inkjet print
Andrea, 2010.
Digital Inkjet print
Griffin and Ali, 2010.
Digital Inkjet print
Programming
Conversation with the Artist:
Sarah Fuller
May 27, 2011, 6:30 pm
RBC New Works Gallery
Free with admission
Join us for an artist talk with Sarah Fuller about her new exhibition My Banff. Conversation with the Artist is a series of talks held in conjunction with The RBC New Works Gallery, a space dedicated to the display of new work by local Alberta artists. These informal and engaging talks take place within the Gallery.
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Sarah Fuller’s exhibition, My Banff, brings together a suite of photographic portraits of residents of the community of Banff, with a miniature diorama of the town itself.
Encased by a large plexiglass dome, the model town looks like a basic semblance of the real one, but with subtle changes and interventions that reveal its difference – or at least its difference from usual representations of Banff. This town is marked by the artist’s habitation of it. Her town is comprised of places of significance to her personally. These are featured and made prominent, not the typical sites and geographic landmarks that have come to characterize most images of Banff.
Fuller’s image of Banff is a departure from these traditional tourist-driven representations, map, postcard or souvenir. Hers is a personalized view of a place – with traces of real people and lives – caught in the moment of a photograph and frozen beneath the dome of The Banff Bubble.
The RBC New Works Gallery features new artworks by Alberta artists. Initiated in 1998 and named the RBC New Works Gallery in 2008, this gallery space continues the Art Gallery of Alberta’s tradition of supporting Alberta artists.
