In the video, a figure wearing a fluorescent safety vest passes and trespasses through land in various states of barren to broken, suburban to industrial, and through a nearby reservation. A length of bright flagging tape trails behind, its movement shaped by wind, marking both the force and underlying instability of imposed boundaries. The piece comments on varied ways we work with, for, or in indifference to land.
somewhere between a town a mine and a reserve is a line
At work, I recall the coldness of the water when I stood in the lake as winter was letting go. I can feel the sharp gravel beneath my bare feet and still hear the crunch of dead leaves.
I remember the feeling of trespassing onto company land and making my way up to the edge of a man-made ridge to a view of a massive industrial pond. I keep my feet to the edge of the pavement as I head towards the main highway in the freezing drizzle of another day.
That was thirteen years from now. I was a visitor then as I will be again.
Résidence : [19 au 26 mars]
Opening: Thursday, March 26th 2026, at 5 pm.
Rebecca Belmore
Born in Upsala, Ontario, Rebecca Belmore is an artist currently living in Winnipeg, Manitoba. She is a 2013 laureate of the Governor General’s Awards in Visual and Media Arts. She attended and received an honorary doctorate from the Ontario College of Art and Design in Toronto and is internationally recognized for her performance and installation art. Since 1987, her multi-disciplinary work has addressed history, place and identity through the media of sculpture, installation, video and performance. Belmore was Canada's official representative at the 2005 Venice Biennale. Her work has appeared in numerous exhibitions both nationally and internationally including two solo touring exhibitions, The Named and the Unnamed, Morris and Helen Belkin Art Gallery, Vancouver (2002); and 33 Pieces, Blackwood Gallery, University of Toronto at Mississauga (2001). Her group exhibitions include House Guests, Art Gallery of Ontario (2001); Longing and Belonging: From the Faraway Nearby, SITE Santa Fe, Santa Fe, New Mexico (1995); Land, Spirit, Power, National Gallery of Canada (1992); and Creation or Death: We Will Win, at the Havana Biennial, Havana Cuba (1991).
Artist Profile