Byron Johnston, Single-Sprocket Super-16, 2010 (detail), installation at the Kelowna Airport.

Byron Johnston
Single-Sprocket Super-16
May 17 to November 8, 2010

Kelowna-based artist Byron Johnston has launched a temporary installation on the Gallery’s airport art wall, located en route to the departures security screening section. At press time, Johnston was planning an entropic landscape created by tossing and piling up unwound reels of old 16-mm films. Intermittent magnifying viewers will be installed on the protective glass doors of the art wall, enabling viewers to pause and glimpse the details of a few of the film frames. Johnston sees the use of old technology (certainly some young passersby may have no idea what the material is) as a conceptual portal to the past. This notion of time travel forms a parallel to the journeys taken by departing airplanes as they nose up into their flight paths.