Shifting Horizons
Tickets:
Free
Venue:
The Pavilion at Assiniboine Park
Address:
55 Pavilion Crescent
Tel: (204) 927-6000
URL: Visit Website
January 15, 2025 to January 31, 2025
9am - 4pm
The newest WAG@ThePark show probes the metaphorical and physical space of the horizon to explore the ways in which it shapes our visual perspective.
“The difference between land and the sky is insignificant,” the artist Ivan Eyre has said. The beloved Manitoban, Ivan Eyre, is recognized for his earnest portrayal of the prairie landscape—the high horizon a defining feature of his work. Eyre’s fervent exploration of the horizon line is the thematic concept of Shifting Horizons. Including selected paintings and drawings by Eyre from the Assiniboine Park Conservancy alongside works in WAG-Qaumajuq’s collection, Shifting Horizons activates the horizon as subject—a point of contact and simultaneously as a site of contention. Works by Billy Akavak, Diana Thorneycroft, Sylvie Readman, Mario Yrisarry and more are brought together to reflect on the potential of the horizon as a transformative space. Lines, shapes, and patterns take center stage, and brim with energy. The exhibition contends that the horizon line does not simply guide our sightline, it also disrupts space and interrupts time.
