A Scotiabank CONTACT Photography Festival Primary Exhibition.

In her ongoing project, The Natalie Brettschneider Archive, Vancouver artist Carol Sawyer reconstructs the life and work of a fictional, genre-blurring artist through manufactured documentary and photographic materials. The archive records Brettschneider’s childhood in British Columbia, her participation in the Parisian interwar avant-garde, and her unconventional art practice after she returns to Canada in the late 1930s. A feminist critique of art history conventions, the project examines photography’s use in supporting cultural assumptions about identity, authorship and artmaking. Including authentic archival documents alongside fabricated ones, Sawyer links Brettschneider’s narrative to actual events, people and places, bringing forward sidelined histories of women’s creative work.

SPRING OPENING RECEPTION: Thursday, April 23, 2020 / 7–9 PM / FREE

EXHIBITION: April 23 – June 7, 2020 / Curator: Mona Filip

ARTIST TALK: Sunday, April 26, 2020 / 2 PM / FREE

Artist Carol Sawyer in conversation with Michelle Jacques, Chief Curator of the Art Gallery of Greater Victoria.

FULL DETAILS: https://kofflerarts.org/Exhibitions/Gallery/Gallery-Exhibitions/The-Natalie-Brettschneider-Archive