Mirage

Annie Briard

May 29 to June 26, 2021

Mirage is an exhibition taking a particular look at wonder in landscape. In these times of lockup and barred travel, landscape exploration takes on new meaning and importance. With Mirage, Deluge Contemporary offers works representing the "natural" surrounding world and putting into question our visual perception. Various immersive and pictorial forms utilizing both new and obsolete technologies, the exhibition includes Briard's digitally constructed stereoscopic photographs, subtly changing images and large-scale video projections.

Annie Briard is a Canadian visual and media artist whose work challenges how we make sense of the world through visual perception. Creating lens-based and light-focused works, she explores the intersections between perception paradigms in psychology, neuroscience and existentialism.

Her moving images, media installations, expanded and print photography works have been presented in numerous solo exhibitions, including Second Sight at AC Institute (New York, 2019), Paracosmic Sun at Monica Reyes Gallery (Vancouver, 2017), Sight Shifting at Joyce Yahouda Gallery (Montreal, 2014), as well as group shows, festivals and fairs internationally, including at the Vancouver Art Gallery, Art Mur (Montreal), Three Shadows Photography Centre (Beijing), the Lincoln Film Centre New York, Matadero Madrid, the Switzerland Architecture Museum, among many others. Recently, she presented large-scale public art projects for a number of commissions in Canada. Sourcing inspiration from the affectation of new and/or altered sights, she regularly undertakes art residencies, which have included working in New York, Los Angeles, Spain, Iceland, as well as long-haul hikes across the North American back country. Annie Briard’s work is supported by the Canada Council for the Arts and the British Columbia Arts Council.

Briard holds a BFA from Concordia University and an MFA from Emily Carr University of Art + Design, where she currently teaches. In conjunction with her practice, she occasionally curates exhibitions and public programs in relation to her research interests.