PHOTOGRAPHY: LISA HIRMER

WATCHING THE DULL EDGES (​THE NORTHERN HEMISPHERE OF A  23°27′ TILT)

​Lisa Hirmer, Watching Dull Edges (the northern hemisphere of a 23°27′ tilt), 2017, digital c-prints, 16x24 inches (series of 6)

​Lisa Hirmer, Watching Dull Edges (the northern hemisphere of a 23°27′ tilt), 2017, digital c-prints, 16x24 inches (series of 6)

​Lisa Hirmer, Watching Dull Edges (the northern hemisphere of a 23°27′ tilt), 2017, digital c-prints, 16x24 inches (series of 6)

​Lisa Hirmer, Watching Dull Edges (the northern hemisphere of a 23°27′ tilt), 2017, digital c-prints, 16x24 inches (series of 6)

​Lisa Hirmer, Watching Dull Edges (the northern hemisphere of a 23°27′ tilt), 2017, digital c-prints, 16x24 inches (series of 6)

​Lisa Hirmer, Watching Dull Edges (the northern hemisphere of a 23°27′ tilt), 2017, digital c-prints, 16x24 inches (series of 6)

Watching Dull Edges (the northern hemisphere of a 23°27′ tilt) is a series of photographs documenting the act of sitting in Canada during the winter of 2017 carefully watching the last snowfall of the year melting inside a test tube. It is a meditation on what it means to be living through the end of planetary regularities, like the seasons as we have come to know them. Winter in Canada as long months of accumulating snow fall will shortly be no more, if it isn’t already gone; this work considers what it means to live with this awareness.
 
 
Watching Dull Edges (the northern hemisphere of a 23°27′ tilt) is a work about paying attention to change, even when it arrives with slowly, or with dull edges. It is about staying still to attune oneself to a loss whose material and temporal dimensions are so vast we struggle to make sense of them. How do we stop to not just notice but truly register and mourn these losses accumulating? What practices can we enact to connect our lived experiences of the world with this urgent new reality?
 



​Lisa Hirmer is an interdisciplinary artist who works across visual media, social practice, performance and occasionally writing. She is primarily concerned with collective relationships: that which exists between things, rather than simply within them—particularly in relation to collective beliefs and in human relations with the more-than human world. Her work finds home both in gallery contexts and an expanded field of other public spaces. It has been shown across Canada and internationally. She has received numerous grants and residencies for her work including from Canada Council for the Arts, Ontario Arts Council, Robert Rauschenberg Foundation and Camargo Foundation. 

​Lisa Hirmer would like to acknowledge The Art Gallery of Ontario for project support.

Website:
www.lisahirmer.ca
Instagram: lisa.hirmer