Ice Follies 2018
February 9th - 20th, 2018
Theme: Exposing to Strengthen
The creation of ice roads requires the clearing of snow to expose the ice to the cold. The snow is cleared well beyond the used roadway to ensure safe ice thickness from the center to the edges of the used portion of the ice road. What do we bring to light, allow or expose so a strengthening can occur?
Reece Terris, The Darkhouse, 2018
Presented by White Water Gallery
Reece Terris, as a visiting settler (based in Vancouver), will respond to urban waste by creating a large-scale structure that will literally melt away. He will create a 20’ diameter dome-shaped structure out of ice and snow, with a large circular hole cut through the ice at its centre. “The Darkhouse” draws its name from ice fishing huts used by spear fishers, in whose darkness one’s eyes become sensitive to the ambient natural light bouncing off the lake floor, transforming the ice fishing hole into a screen of sorts where targets become visible. Upon entering Terris’ hut, audience members may seek targets (even if ‘only’ visual ones) as the lake bottom first comes into view, but this tendency will be worn down by the relative stillness of the lake. Sitting in quiet reflection, in a circular space, audiences will become attentive to subtle shifts of the lake, thereby learning to listen and see otherwise.
Artist Bio:
Reece Terris is a Vancouver based artist whose work alters the expected experiential qualities of a place or object through an amplification or shift in the primary function of an original design.
Past projects include a six-storey apartment building temporarily installed in the rotunda of the Vancouver Art Gallery, a pedestrian wooden bridge connecting two residential homes, and an architectural false front added to the existing false front of an artist-run centre.
His practice is manifest through a variety of media, including sculpture, performance, installation, and photography. Quite often through their hybrid execution, he complicates the traditional definitions of each of these.
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