February 4, 2017 to May 28, 2017
Curators: David Diviney and Sarah Fillmore
The Nature of Nature celebrates forty years of production from one of Canada’s leading photographers, the New Brunswick-based Thaddeus Holownia. This exhibition offers insight into Holownia’s art-making from the late 1970s to the present day and features newly created works on exhibition for the very first time.
Firmly located within the North American documentary genre, Holownia’s work is engaged with the histories of photography and of places. His unique practice, using predominantly analogue technologies, merges high craft with prolonged inquiry as his projects span years if not decades.
As Holownia states:
The meaning that resides in my bodies of work goes beyond visual description; they stand as a history of the play between human intervention and the landscape. The result is both an anecdote of an ordinary place and a metaphor for our relationship to place and environment. What emerges is a sense of vulnerability and the inexorable force of time.
Together with an attendant publication of the same title, The Nature of Nature: The Photographs of Thaddeus Holownia, 1976-2016 brings into focus the Maritime artist’s significant contributions to the photographic medium, providing the most comprehensive critical analysis of his practice to date.
