Winnipeg artist, Derek Dunlop presents an exhibition which began as an investigation into his family’s super 8 archive. The footage marks the very beginning of the invention and validation of family and class through the forces and structure of technology- when many Canadians could indulge in recording memories and building their own family archive.

The work has been produced by re-shooting and then digitally manipulating old footage, culminating in the layering of found and original text. The images in this series are specific to ideas of city, landscape, leisure and home. Most of the footage was shot in and around Winnipeg, and the lake country outside of the city.

“Through the juxtaposition of image and text in unusual, obvious and sometimes unsettling ways, my intention is to produce an interesting poetry that may reveal wider issues relating to culture and politics.”   Derek Dunlop