“Ascension” By Terry SanCartier

"Ascension", Exhibition view, Exposure Gallery, Ottawa

Geometric shapes, sharp lines, unusual views: Photographs by Ottawa photographer Terry SanCartier – like the seemingly never ending spiral staircase inspired by nature in Barcelona – are rather representation than documentation. That's why they perfectly correspond to the Festival X’s theme of “Otherwise Than Seeing: Photograph, Image, Representation”.

Today is the last day to visit the exhibition at Exposure Gallery that shows places all over the world that had inspired the photographer.

"Ascension", Exhibition view, Exposure Gallery, Ottawa

Some of them remind me at the German movement of the 1920s “Neues Sehen” (New Vision), with their unexpected framings and the use of high and low camera angles. Like the artist says: “At first glance, photographs from this exhibit may suggest the obvious but on closer enquiry, another interpretation may be evident. [...] Can the viewer grasp the unseen?”

"Ascension", Exhibition view, Exposure Gallery, Ottawa

  
Facts: 
Ascension By Terry SanCartier
Exposure Gallery
June 28 to October 2, 2012
http://www.exposuregallery.info/exhibitions/terry-sancartier/

  

Regarding the Barcelona photographs on the right side: "Does the staircase lead to the upper floors of a museum and thus transport one to a place of higher learning?" asks Terry.