Angeline Simon, stay/there, 2019, courtesy of the artist.
Exposure Festival, January 31 - February 29, 2020
Exhibition continues until April 26, 2020
Exposure is an annual festival that celebrates photography, hosting thoughtfully curated exhibitions that showcase internationally renowned practitioners alongside emerging and established talent from Alberta. Through its programme of exhibitions, portfolio reviews, artist talks, discussions and events, Exposure 2020 explores what photography is, what it can be, its current place in contemporary art, and the future of the medium. Exposure’s outdoor exhibition, The Fence (and our own Western Canadian Edition), makes its annual appearance in Calgary. Exposure provides an exciting, innovative meeting place for practitioners to connect and communicate with curators and industry professionals from around the world.
This year marks the sixteenth edition of the festival and promises an exciting programme, with festival headquarters located at Contemporary Calgary. Displayed within its dramatically bold brutalist spaces are the three festival feature exhibitions: International Open Call, Emerging Photographers Showcase and 2019 Emerging Photographer of the Year, Boon Ong’s, Our Closets.
The exhibitions show a broad range of works, from photojournalism to photocollage, abstract photography to politically-engaged work, from the social to the personal, along with visual explorations of identity and personal narratives.
Exhibiting artists in the Exposure 2020 International Open Call include Anne Tapler White (Calgary AB), Peter Greendale (Cochrane AB), Patrick McCloskey (Canmore AB), Angeline Simon (Lethbridge AB), Arianne Clément (Montreal QC), Denis Wong (Montreal QC), Sunny Strader (Los Angeles CA USA), Sandra Chen Weinstein (Lake Forest CA USA), Ala Buisir (Dublin Ireland), Graeme Oxby (Lincoln UK), Emma Wilson (North Humberside UK), Mark Murphy (Birmingham UK), Philip Harris (Derby UK), Lucky Keller (Derby UK) and Robert Lie (Kepri Indonesia). Exhibiting artists in the Exposure 2020 Emerging Photographers Showcase include Wilmer Aburto, Jayden Daniels, Manikarnika Kanjilal, Liam Kavanagh-Bradette, Jake Kimble, Sasha Lavoie, Michelle Lazo, Nahanni McKay, Zachary Morris, J. Ashley Nixon, Lily Pavle, Andres Porras, Colleen Rauscher, Toni Reed and Nicholas Taylor.
Exposure Festival’s opening weekend runs January 31 to February 2 and includes exhibition openings and a host of events. See www.exposurephotofestival.com for more information.