HAILE FINNEY AND DWAYNE MARTINEAU
Resemblance
Friday, February 21, 2020, 7:00pm
Parallel Space, 10573 111 St NW
Images: (Left) ONE DEAD TREE #4 BY Dwayne Martineau, (Right) Still from Story of a (almost) Dead Dog by Haile Finney
Resemblance explores death and grief by projecting sought-after memories onto surrounding objects and experiences. The ways in which one mourns shapes and generates how we move forward. Both artists question the unknown afterlife as they are caught within an ethereal state of mourning and memories. Our grief and mourning are often present in “experiences within space and can be triggered and ameliorated in relation to particular places at particular times.” Layering and projecting their interpretations and experiences of death and grief through their lens based practices, Finney and Martineau invite viewers into an inter-relational space to honour the mourning process.
Resemblance is an online exhibition curated by Ociciwan Contemporary Art Collective, as part of Gallery 44’s, A maze of collapsing lines, a hybrid online exhibition and publication celebrating their 40th anniversary.
Join Ociciwan in conversation with Haile Finney and Dwayne Martineau to discuss their recent project Resemblance, as a part of, A maze of collapsing lines, presented by Gallery 44.
Accessibility notes: Parallel Space is barrier-free, one step to access washroom. There is street parking available. Busses 3, 7, 130 stop at 110 Street & 107 Avenue, approx. 4 minute walk to the venue. Busses 7, 8, 15, 309 stop at 109 Street and 105 Avenue, approx. 5 minute walk to the venue.
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ABOUT THE SPEAKERS
Halie Finney is an emerging artist currently based in Edmonton, Alberta. She received her degree from the Alberta University of Art and Design in 2017 where she majored in drawing; she also graduated from MacEwan University in 2014 with a diploma in fine arts.
Born and raised in the Lesser Slave Lake region of Alberta, Halie holds a strong connection to the area. She understands her Métis heritage through memories told to her by generations of her family who still reside there and through the unchanged characteristics of her home's landscape and lifestyle. In order to speak about home and family freely Halie has created a mythology of characters living in a simplified storybook reflection of her hometown. The group of characters plays out non-linear, idiosyncratic narratives that are expressed through animations, costumes, drawings, paintings, performances and other objects.
Dwayne Martineau is a visual artist, musician and composer living in Edmonton. Two preoccupations dominate his work— the physicality of light, and experimental landscape photography. Using optics, found glass, mirrors and multiple exposures, Martineau introduces distortions, symmetries, and animism into exhaustive studies of forests and trees. His goal, as he describes it, is to use the unique power of photography to "give us a chance to see nature through a different lens, literally, and understand that it’s got its own thing going on..." Dwayne is a member of the Frog Lake First Nation, descended from a complex frontier mix of early French, Scottish and Irish settlers, Plains Cree, Métis, and Iroquois.
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