2025
Mar 29
2025
May 24
Godfrey Dean Art Gallery
49 Smith Street
Yorkton SK
S3N 0H4
Treaty 4 Territory
Cost: Free
Art Exhibition
Bret Parenteau: Whitesand Stream
Bret Parenteau: Whitesand Stream
On view March 29-May 24, 2025
Opening Reception: March 29, 2025 1-3 PM
Bret Parenteau’s Whitesand Stream is a record of the artist’s consideration of the local topography, channeled through a synthesis of sound and video composed from regional field recordings, tape loops, and video documentation. As an artist living in Winnipeg, Parenteau visualizes connections to land and nature through experimental and improvisational audio and visual mediums. This solo exhibition bridges the geographies of Treaty 1 and Treaty 4, guided by the titular Whitesand River—a natural conduit that mirrors Parenteau’s own artistic practice: interconnected, while constantly shifting and evolving.
The works in Whitesand Stream emerge from Parenteau’s research into the Yorkton region’s ecology, informed by geological surveys and climatic studies of the area. Field recordings—captured along ditches, sloughs and riverbanks, under expansive prairie skies, and beneath forest canopies—are fragmented and reorganized through tape manipulation and noise techniques, transforming raw environmental data into intuitive landscapes. Whitesand Stream is an invitation to inhabit the liminal space between documentation and abstraction, offering Yorkton audiences a reflection of their own environment, refracted through Parenteau's lens.
On view March 29-May 24, 2025
Opening Reception: March 29, 2025 1-3 PM
Bret Parenteau’s Whitesand Stream is a record of the artist’s consideration of the local topography, channeled through a synthesis of sound and video composed from regional field recordings, tape loops, and video documentation. As an artist living in Winnipeg, Parenteau visualizes connections to land and nature through experimental and improvisational audio and visual mediums. This solo exhibition bridges the geographies of Treaty 1 and Treaty 4, guided by the titular Whitesand River—a natural conduit that mirrors Parenteau’s own artistic practice: interconnected, while constantly shifting and evolving.
The works in Whitesand Stream emerge from Parenteau’s research into the Yorkton region’s ecology, informed by geological surveys and climatic studies of the area. Field recordings—captured along ditches, sloughs and riverbanks, under expansive prairie skies, and beneath forest canopies—are fragmented and reorganized through tape manipulation and noise techniques, transforming raw environmental data into intuitive landscapes. Whitesand Stream is an invitation to inhabit the liminal space between documentation and abstraction, offering Yorkton audiences a reflection of their own environment, refracted through Parenteau's lens.
2025
Mar 29
2025
May 24
Godfrey Dean Art Gallery
49 Smith Street
Yorkton SK
S3N 0H4
Cost: Free
Organizer
Accessibility
- Wheelchair Accessible