Sage Sidley explores concepts of place, time, and memory in the context of site-specificity and urban ideologies. The artist frequently creates her work directly onto architectural surfaces, as she has done for this exhibition. In doing so, she engages with notions of the ephemeral, and challenges perceptions of space and reality.
Sidley’s installation examines how cellphone photography has become a form of interpersonal communication. Cellphone pictures are associated with identity construction, and a proliferating range of social and cultural activities now revolve around this technology.
Though the photograph has been considered a faithful way to reproduce visual reality, the rise of digital imaging and social media has made us critically aware that photographic images are frequently constructed and altered. Sidley’s work asks viewers to question what we use photos for.
The experience of looking at art is increasingly mediated through digital screens and shared through social media sites, changing galleries from sites where we primarily engage in seeing, to sites where we concentrate on being seen.
Technology is dramatically influencing in-person experiences, and many galleries and museums are responding by programming exhibitions that encourage the creation and dissemination of digital imagery. Sidley’s work simultaneously participates in and critiques this trend. Using paint and ink to extend the floor of the gallery, Sidley’s hyper-realist figures, drawn from iPhone photographs, occupy the space with us. As viewers, we’re in the line of fire as figures on one side of the gallery snap photos of those on the other. We both interrupt and participate in this activity: while we look at these life-sized figures, they gaze back at us through their hand-held devices, constituting us as subjects on view.
Sidley’s drawings make us aware of our behaviour in the gallery space without explicitly commenting on it. Have you snapped a selfie yet? Will you?
The Reach Art on Demand 3.3 Monograph
Originally exhibited in Abbotsford at The Reach Gallery Museum November 15, 2024 to January 04, 2025.
Originally exhibited in Abbotsford at The Reach Gallery Museum July 06, 2024 to November 02, 2024.
Originally exhibited in Abbotsford at The Reach Gallery Museum April 11, 2024 to June 08, 2024.
Originally exhibited in Abbotsford at The Reach Gallery Museum February 08, 2024 to March 30, 2024.
Originally exhibited in Abbotsford at The Reach Gallery Museum December 08, 2023 to January 27, 2024.
Originally exhibited in Abbotsford at The Reach Gallery Museum October 14, 2023 to December 02, 2023.
Originally exhibited in Abbotsford at The Reach Gallery Museum March 24, 2023 to May 06, 2023.
Originally exhibited in Abbotsford at The Reach Gallery Museum January 27, 2023 to March 18, 2023.
Originally exhibited in Abbotsford at The Reach Gallery Museum November 18, 2022 to January 08, 2023.
Originally exhibited in Abbotsford at The Reach Gallery Museum September 23, 2022 to November 12, 2022.
Originally exhibited in Abbotsford at The Reach Gallery Museum March 25, 2022 to May 07, 2022.
Originally exhibited in Abbotsford at The Reach Gallery Museum January 28, 2022 to March 19, 2022.
Originally exhibited in Abbotsford at The Reach Gallery Museum November 18, 2021 to January 08, 2022.
Originally exhibited in Abbotsford at The Reach Gallery Museum October 01, 2021 to November 13, 2021.
Originally exhibited in Abbotsford at The Reach Gallery Museum March 25, 2021 to May 08, 2021.
Originally exhibited in Abbotsford at The Reach Gallery Museum January 28, 2021 to March 20, 2021.
Originally exhibited in Abbotsford at The Reach Gallery Museum November 05, 2020 to January 09, 2021.
Originally exhibited in Abbotsford at The Reach Gallery Museum September 10, 2020 to November 01, 2020.
Originally exhibited in Abbotsford at The Reach Gallery Museum March 12, 2020 to April 26, 2020.
Originally exhibited in Abbotsford at The Reach Gallery Museum January 23, 2020 to March 08, 2020.
Originally exhibited in Abbotsford at The Reach Gallery Museum November 21, 2019 to January 05, 2020.
Originally exhibited in Abbotsford at The Reach Gallery Museum October 03, 2019 to November 17, 2019.
Originally exhibited in Abbotsford at The Reach Gallery Museum March 14, 2019 to May 05, 2019.
Originally exhibited in Abbotsford at The Reach Gallery Museum January 24, 2019 to March 10, 2019.
Originally exhibited in Abbotsford at The Reach Gallery Museum November 15, 2018 to January 06, 2019.
Originally exhibited in Abbotsford at The Reach Gallery Museum September 27, 2018 to November 10, 2018.
Originally exhibited in Abbotsford at The Reach Gallery Museum March 15, 2018 to May 06, 2018.
Originally exhibited in Abbotsford at The Reach Gallery Museum January 18, 2018 to March 11, 2018.
Originally exhibited in Abbotsford at The Reach Gallery Museum November 16, 2017 to December 31, 2017.
Originally exhibited in Abbotsford at The Reach Gallery Museum March 23, 2017 to May 07, 2017.
Originally exhibited in Abbotsford at The Reach Gallery Museum January 26, 2017 to March 19, 2017.
Originally exhibited in Abbotsford at The Reach Gallery Museum November 24, 2016 to January 08, 2017.
Originally exhibited in Abbotsford at The Reach Gallery Museum September 22, 2016 to November 20, 2016.
Originally exhibited in Abbotsford at The Reach Gallery Museum July 21, 2016 to September 11, 2016.
Originally exhibited in Abbotsford at The Reach Gallery Museum June 16, 2016 to July 17, 2016.
Originally exhibited in Abbotsford at The Reach Gallery Museum December 03, 2015 to January 03, 2016.
Originally exhibited in Abbotsford at The Reach Gallery Museum October 29, 2015 to November 29, 2015.
Originally exhibited in Abbotsford at The Reach Gallery Museum August 06, 2015 to September 06, 2015.
Originally exhibited in Abbotsford at The Reach Gallery Museum July 11, 2015 to August 02, 2015.
Originally exhibited in Abbotsford at The Reach Gallery Museum May 30, 2015 to July 05, 2015.
