In 2009, internationally acclaimed photographer and video artist, Adad Hannah staged a tableaux vivant at the 100 Mile Community Hall, using local secondary school students and other people from the community.
The scene was a living replica of Théodore Géricault’s monumental painting “The Raft of the Medusa” (1818-1819), with actors holding their poses for between five and 10 minutes, while Hannah filmed and photographed them.
A resulting photograph, which became part of the permanent collection of the Winnipeg Art Gallery, is on display in the gallery until Aug. 31, 2012, as part of a new show called, Contemporary Interventions in the Collection on View.
It’s one of several contemporary works from the permanent collection selected to hang scattered amid, and in contrast to the gallery’s new “Collection on View” series of exhibitions: European Renaissance and Baroque Art 1500-1700; The Academic Tradition in Europe and Canada 1700-1900; and The Modernist Tradition 1900-1950.
