Jan Peacock

Two major video installations by Halifax-based artist Jan Peacock - Reader by the Window (now in the collection of the National Gallery) and Book of Chairs - differ in form and presentation, yet both are concerned with physical and emotional distance, and with our relationships to each other and to remembered places. Images and sounds of travel - of arrivals and departures, of places both familiar and exotic - are the raw materials from which Peacock builds her complex layered enivronments, and in which she invites viewers to immerse themselves. Curated by Susan Gibson Garvey, this exhibition has been generously sponsored by AT&T Canada with additional funding from the Nova Scotia Arts Council.