Vintage Grand Prix I Place
Days of Plenty: An Archive of Abundance
Speaking through a photographic history, this project compiles appropriated images into collage works reflecting on human relationship with the living world. At a time when a re-framing of this relationship is urgently called for, these often disturbing works employ extraction as metaphor for the wider story of our attempts of dominion over the natural world. Emerging from my family's history as colonial settlers working in extractive industries in British Columbia from 1887 through to today, and continuing with photographs collected from around the world, I intend to engage with questions around new paths of relation with the other-than-human.
These images are collage works made from archival photographs, printed digitally with pigment ink on cotton rag.
They have not been exhibited yet.
David Ellingsen is a Canadian photo-based artist making work that speaks to the relationship between humans and the natural world, typically with long-term projects focusing on forests, biodiversity and climate.
Ellingsen descends from a family of immigrants and the first settlers to reside on Cortes Island – the traditional territory of the Klahoose, Tla'amin and Homalco First Nations – in 1887. His work draws upon this family history, one often embedded within British Columbia's troubled forest industry, and the photographs reflect on the impacts of resource extraction and consumption on the other-than-human inhabitants of past, present, and future eco-systems.
Recent exhibitions include China's Lishui Museum of Art, the San Jose Institute of Contemporary Art, Lithuania's Kaunas Photo Festival and Canada's Campbell River Museum. Ellingsen's photographs are part of the permanent collections of South Korea's Datz Museum of Art, China's Photography Museum of Lishui, and Canada's Beaty Biodiversity Museum and Royal British Columbia Museum. They have been shortlisted for Photolucida's Critical Mass Book Award, appeared with National Geographic and Patagonia Books, and awarded First Place at the Prix de la Photographie Paris and the International Photography Awards.
Vernissage:
12.09.2024, 19:30
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