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Joan Scaglione, currently based in Kingston Ontario, creates large-scale installations, and works on paper. Her large-scale installation practice evolved in the prairies where she went to graduate school.
squall. 2019
Inspired by the negative impact of climate change on Nature.
SQUALL is a massive, dying river constructed from paper blackened with India ink
that flows from ceiling to floor and across the gallery space. Specially created sound
as the river’s “voice” carries it’s pain.
Audio Experience by Matt Rogalsky - Sound Artist
face of the deep. 2017
A work inspired by Scaglione’s inner conception of the origins of the universe. Constructed from thousands of blackened forms moving in patterns of flow across the floor, her vision creates a sense of primal energy originating in the depths.
ritual of desire. 2011
I walked this sight for over a year to feel the history embedded in this land. Artists from the University of Regina and others took over this site for one day! It was amazing. The site that you see is traditional native land and I received permission to make my work on it. My idea was to express the sacred element of this site. Thus I built 25 ladders and embedded them into the earth, making a connection between the Earth and the Heavens.
ribs of sky, ribs of stone. 2010
I was given a great opportunity to show at the MacKenzie Art Gallery in Regina. I decided to build 25 boats. They were built in the summer. It was winter and minus 45o C when I brought the boats from my studio to the Gallery. There was four feet of snow and the boats sat in snow for an hour while we waited for the camera person to take shots of the boats. Forty people from the community transported these boats into the gallery where they dried for three days before being installed.
earth bed tells. 2009
I was artist in residence in Dawson City in 2009. I constructed five beds from recycled wood and charred them after construction on the site just above the Yukon River. After I finished this installation, I later discovered that two hospitals had been built exactly on this sight and both burned down. The charred hospital beds were thrown into the Yukon River that was just below my installation of beds. It rained almost every day I was there and the river was so high, otherwise I would have seen the burnt hospital beds in the river!