change

Chris Lindsay

June 28 to July 27, 2013

Lindsay’s installation at Deluge manifests his ongoing investigations into sensory perception and imagination: our sum experience as human beings acting as contrails for how we try to understand our singular place within a manifold universe. The work in change has been conceived and constructed as a sort of laboratory/maquette for the expansion of our insight, playing with the interrelationship between sculpture and space. When we are inside of it, we absorb, consider, abandon and reconsider our conscious, unconscious and uncontrollable relationship to the nature of the piece, as well as our responses. change is a place where we are able to experience a subjective and mutable awareness of existing in complex and ineffable surroundings—the uncertain journey we make between resistance and enlightenment.

Twenty years’ experience as a microbiologist helped refine Chris Lindsay’s ability to engage and interpret visual information, instilling in him a profound interest and appreciation for the complex gift of human perception, nourishing an aptitude for invention and promoting a sincere concern for the fate of our species on this planet. Having completed a Bachelor of Fine Arts at the University of Ottawa in 2011 and recently an MFA at the University of Victoria, he continues to develop his practice in Victoria. Lindsay’s work has been shown in Ottawa, Montreal, Toronto, Atlanta and Victoria.