One of the many things we love about running a photography and videography business in southern Ontario is that our work takes us to all sorts of different places. One week we might be in our photography studio taking photos of headshot sessions or business branding videos, the next, we might be on-location documenting someone’s small business in action. We love that over the last decade, we’ve done photos and videos for large and small companies, headshots for individuals and corporations, event photography.
Taking photos for the Oakville Galleries and documenting the work of other creatives, is always a highlight.
We adore this exhibition by Hugo Canoilas.
Hold Your Breath is Hugo Canoilas’ first solo exhibition in Canada.
The exhibition presents an enormous, amorphous painting covering the entire Centennial Gallery space. Visitors are guided throughout this installation, encouraged to explore and walk over the artwork. The material, arrangement and mise en scene of Hold Your Breath was initially developed as an operatic set for Kunsthaus Bregenz and the Bregenzer Festspielhaus in Austria.
This new presentation at Oakville Galleries reflects Canoilas's practice of revising and recontextualizing large-scale works to adapt to and challenge the architecture of each exhibition space. Canoilas' immersive work features deep-sea imagery, including a microscopic view of an octopus's skin, a seashell, and a large siphonophore, symbolizing symbiosis and mutualism. The painting installation also uses ROV spotlights, contrasting the celestial light of historical painting with the pure white of modern art. Images emerge from the darkness through process-driven techniques that mimic nature.
