A Brief Pause is an exhibition that explores the intricacies and methodologies to hold a viewer’s attention. This moment in time has potential. Time is limited and not guaranteed. A Brief Pause lends a moment of silence and tranquility towards the rapidity of our environments. It excavates our understandings of time and helps up confront what is a domineering force in our lives.

DEADLINE extended to NOVEMBER 15th
EMAIL SUBMISSIONS TO IVANGALLERY@AUARTS.CA

SEEKING:

YOU to help build a collective visual canon. to capture the beauty of our great Canadian prairies. art that is inspired by the prairies or the text prompt.

DEADLINE November 15th

EMAIL SUBMISSIONS TO IVANGALLERY@AUARTS.CA

in a canola field, the yellow flowers rustle, it is hot and dry and the sun is unrelenting. you wonder how long you have been here, but you cannot seem to remember how you got here in the first place. your mouth is dry, and sweat drips down your brow, your nose, your chin, even down your back under your already sweat-soaked shirt, and you are thirsty. you have never been this thirsty in your life and you feel as if you will expire in the next ten minutes if you do not have something to drink. you scan the landscape for signs of human life, and when you turn around again, there is a house where there were only fields upon fields. you walk towards it, not wanting to sweat out the last water in your body you have, but as you walk the house does not seem to get any closer. a raven caws as it flies above you and you start running.

you run for what seems like hours, and by the time you arrive at the broken steps of the run-down house, your limbs feel like jelly and you wonder if the house even has water, let alone inhabitants. you are in the shade of the wide covered porch now, but the sun still feels like a cruel omnipresent god trying to smother you with its hot breath. you crawl up to the heavy wood door, ignoring the splintered wood of the porch as you reach for the doorknob. it is unlocked and it turns easily. what do you see?