Enkindle
Open weekends 3-6pm December 5-20th, 2020
“The exhibition Enkindle, will transport viewers into a phantastic space that mixes both digital animation and natural textures. The illusionistic display of organic forms within this series of digitally augmented artworks suggests how the digital may become entangled in the natural realm.”
Gina Luke is a visual artist who gathers source material from the landscapes around her, frequently dividing her time between urban and rural BC. She works from what she calls a memory cache of juvenile heyday in which forms, colours, and sensations from the urban and rural landscape spill into her sumptuous projections. Her past work as a digital archivist assistant at the Haida Heritage Center, undergraduate study of projection, and interest in becoming attuned to these distinct landscapes comprise her interest in pseudo natural projections that offer sanctuary-esque windows to the natural world.
Artist Statement:
I draw a relationship between animation, and an installation based art practice through investigating our surroundings in relationship to our own bodies. I don’t animate; I produce drawings and forms that move in immersive projection environments and across sculptural materials. By adjoining digital rendering and tactile material my work transports viewers to a flexible space where one can examine the intersection of digital life with our natural world. I am interested in using highly saturated imagery, that is unpacked as a sculptural object and inevitably diluted, creating spaces of experience.