Jason de Haan at Esker Foundation

May 28 - August 27, 2017

Calgary-based artist Jason de Haan has developed an interest in proposing and undertaking projects in which particular environments, natural conditions, and massive time scales determine, animate, and complete his practice. The title of this exhibition is an altered excerpt from the 1944 science fiction novel Sirius by Olaf Stapledon. The story is of Sirius, a hyper-intelligent and sentient hound that forms deep emotional relationships, as well as frustrations, with the human members of his family. At one point, recalling a nightmare, Sirius laments: "Oh, for hands! At night I dream of hands!" His greatest frustration in life was his lack of manual dexterity - a poignant allusion to the invisible forces and paradoxes of vision as explored in this exhibition, but also to the artist's interest in science fiction as a genre that disrupts time and space as a way to critique and reimagine a static understanding of our place in the universe.

Full exhibition text HERE

May 29, 2017