Charlottetown – Canadian artist Michael Snow has been exhibiting for more than 50 years. This summer the Confederation Centre Art Gallery is presenting a recent video work, Solar Breath (Northern Caryatids), which was inspired by Snow’s annual sojourns to a cabin in Newfoundland.
“Starting thirty years ago, I constructed (and continue to work on every summer) a log cabin 9 metres by 9 metres in size, in a remote coastal area in maritime Canada,” Snow wrote about this project in 2002. “The weather is an important factor in one’s experience of this place. Every summer I am able to spend one or two months there.”
“Once or twice each summer, a mysterious wind performance takes place in one of the windows, about an hour before sunset. A very northern Canadian wilderness scene. For several summers I have attempted to capture this wind phenomenon on tape or film, with inconsistent results. Some summers it never happened at all,” he continued.
The result of years of Snow’s attention, Solar Breath (Northern Caryatids) is a 62 minute video of the movements that the sun, wind, windows and curtain created in his small cabin. The single installation opens in the Upper Gallery on June 12 and runs until September 14.
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