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When you walk through the door at Nina Haggerty Centre for the Arts, no one grills you about the precise nature of how you’re different. “Great things happen when you give a person freedom of expression,” is one of the mantras at Nina – and their job is to figure out how to help that come to be.
Scott Berry‘s distinctive, playful art has hung at U of A Museum’s Enterprise Square Galleries, is on the permanent En Masse Underpass mural at 97th Avenue along the High Level Bridge Streetcar tracks – and he’s been recognized as Stantec’s Artist of the Year.
The Paris-born artist’s work is meticulous and monochromatic, from drawings to dizzying animations to ceramics, and now a maze of soft, melted-together mannequins Nina’s featuring as part of their 12th birthday celebrations.
One of the most ambitious show Nina’s thrown yet, Berry’s show is called Confusement, which he calls “the feeling of being stared at but no one can see who you are.”
Months in the making, we’re inside Berry’s head like never before – anonymous, silent figures floating with open-saucer mouths, one by one appearing around the curve with his numerous other sculptures and animations – until you breach the centre, thousands of eyes looking inward at a clump of full-size human figures, moulded from real-life.
It’s all at 9225 118 Ave.
Below are a few snaps of the instalation, which is open through Feb. 27 and is surely already one of the most important shows of 2015. Don’t miss this one.
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