HOMAGE

Homage is a suite of photographs depicting petri dishes with bloomed microbial cultures derived from swabs of the palettes and brushes used by members of the Group of Seven and Tom Thomson, objects held in the archives of the McMichael Canadian Art Collection.

These large-scale works are monumental in scale yet they reveal microscopic detail, affirming a playful reverence towards the Group’s legacy while reframing the genre of landscape painting through the lens of photography.

Through these glowing bacterial landscapes Sasaki has generated a new sublime, a counterpoint to the quotidian nature of what lies beneath.

The artifacts from which the microscopic organisms were gathered are exhibited in dialogue with the photographs, presenting a poignant entanglement of past and present- day artists in the story of Canadian art.

Organized and circulated by the McMichael Canadian Art Collection. Exhibition Sponsors,
Richard and Donna Ivey.

Supported by the
CONTACT Photography Festival