I Contain Multitudes

The School of Art Gallery is pleased to present a newly commissioned body of work by artist Jon Sasaki, created in response to its extensive collection of artworks and artifacts by Group of Seven artist and former School of Art Director, Lionel LeMoine Fitzgerald.

With wit and eloquence, Sasaki’s work interrogates the Canadian landscape painting tradition, the hagiographic value of the artist’s tools, and the creative potential that lies within institutional art collections. Inspired by Fitzgerald’s delicate and strangely anthropomorphic renderings of trees,

Sasaki has created a series of intimate, unsettling, and surprising videos, using a tiny endoscopic camera to probe inside the trees around Fitzgerald’s former Winnipeg residence, on campus, in nearby parks, and inside the driftwood found on the beach near the Fitzgerald family cottage on Bowen Island, British Columbia.