The Weather

Charles H. Scott Gallery is pleased to present The Weather, an exhibition of Canadian and International artists that looks at our relationship to the weather, our efforts to measure and record it, to control and manipulate it, to understand and live with it.

The weather has a profound influence on our lives. It is a source of pleasure and disappointment, annoyance and fear. It can determine what we do and how we behave. Talk of the weather can be an icebreaker between strangers, the subject of idle chatter. While the weather is a mundane constant in our daily existence, it is one that is also capable of wreaking destruction and chaos. It is at once tediously ordinary and awesomely majestic. This exhibition examines some of the ways our relationship to the weather has been articulated within contemporary visual art.

The exhibition includes performative works by Montreal’s Ana Rewakowicz and Los Angeles-based Trisha Donnelly, here represented by her projection work, Canadian Rain. The pseudo-scientific is explored in both Belgian artist Edith Dekyndt’s work and that of Vancouver’s Antonia Hirsch. Our personal relationship to the weather is addressed in David Crompton & Andrew Herfst’s dvd excerpts, which focus on the iconic quality of weather in Vancouver and Montreal, and in the sculptural and photographic work of Toronto’s Tania Kitchell. Mina Totino records the weather through her ongoing archive of the clouds and poet Lisa Robertson explores the language of weather and the weather of language in an audio listening station.

The Weather is co-produced by the Liane and Danny Taran Gallery, Saidye Bronfman Centre for the Arts, Montreal.