OCT 7 - 31 | 7-9 PM | POLICE POINT PARK (along the shale path)

The Deep Dark is a spatial installation intended to illuminate the inter-space between our sacred (and natural) environments and cultural constructs of darkness. To develop the installation, the artists conducted interviews, asking: why do we fear the dark? Is darkness a presence or an absence? What separates real fears of nighttime from imaginary fears of things we cannot see? By unearthing commonalities between interviewed participants, a loose narrative emerged, exposing a collective insight into our human relationship with the deep dark.

The Deep Dark uses domestic doorways as an entry point, inviting you to move through ghostly architecture. As you pass through each frame, you are blinded by intense white light that overexposes your eyes. The darkness beyond the frames is magnified to blackness, much darker than before. As your eyes adjust to the dark, the next illuminated door frame becomes visible in the distance, beckoning you onward. From an outward perspective, as viewers step through the gates, they disappear completely. Intended to impose artificial light into the wild darkness, The Deep Dark is light by which the darkness grows darker and disillusions the night.

The Deep Dark will be illuminated from Dusk (approx 7pm) until 9pm, 7 days a week at Police Point Park, on the Shale Path

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Note: The park washrooms at Police Point Visitor Centre close at 8:30pm.

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Artist Bio:

Caitlind r.c. Brown & Wayne Garrett explore the interspace between seemingly polarized entities: light + dark, nature + culture, DIY + institutional, individual + collective. Based in Calgary/Mohkinstsis, the duo centres their practice in relational space, conceptualizing installations and interventions primarily for the public realm. Their projects beckon viewers with novel materials and participatory contexts, inviting strangers to share in collaborative viewership. Beautiful, subversive, playful, and radically inclusive, their works transform the everyday through a critical shift in perspective.

Caitlind graduated from Alberta University of the Arts in 2010, earning an Alumni of Merit Career Award in 2019. Wayne trained as a musician at Mount Royal University and a machinist at Southern Alberta Institute of Technology. Together, they have exhibited at Garage Museum of Contemporary Art (Russia), Weisman Art Museum (USA), Pera Museum (Turkey), Japan Alps Art Festival (Japan), the National Arts Centre (Canada), and other art spaces across North America, Europe, Asia, and Australia. Their public projects include Yesterday, Today, Tomorrow, AFTER IMAGE, and Delta Garden + The City Unseen in Calgary, CARBON COPY in Edmonton, and LIGHT KEEPER in Toronto. In 2019, they won Urban Design Awards for public artworks in Calgary and Edmonton, including the People’s Choice Award for CARBON COPY. Every month, the duo co-hosts a sound art radio program on CJSW 90.9 fm called EARS HAVE EYES. In collaboration with Lane Shordee, Caitlind & Wayne are currently Guiding Artists for The Wandering Island, a site-responsive project on a small island in the Elbow River.

Caitlind & Wayne maintain an experimental art practice, transpiring in wintertime domestic art intervention, The Hibernation Project. Whether exhibiting in formal galleries, pre-demolition buildings, public spaces, or their own backyard, Caitlind & Wayne believe in art’s potential to catalyze new understandings of the everyday.

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