Salt Lake City, Utah
Dates: October 25, 2024 – January 11, 2025
Artist-in-Residence Ian Burnley presents A Bee his burnished Carriage, a thought-provoking exhibition at the Utah Museum of Contemporary Art featuring cyanotypes and a two-channel video installation. The cyanotype prints, created with a 19th-century photographic technique, reference the Victorian practice of ascribing hidden meanings to flowers, allowing people to communicate complex emotions through floral arrangements. Each print serves as a symbolic nod to the secret language of flowers.
Burnley’s two-channel video installation, inspired by the storytelling style of daytime soap operas, invites viewers to move through the space, mirroring a pollinator’s movement between blooms. The video explores themes of passion and projection, presenting fictional characters who channel their emotions onto objects, transforming them into stand-ins for human desires.
The exhibition examines the connections between the natural world and popular culture, as Burnley notes, “flowers serve as a kind of ‘living advertisement’ to animal life, much as soap operas historically seduce the attention of consumers.”
Venue: Utah Museum of Contemporary Art
20 S. West Temple, Salt Lake City, UT 84101
Phone: 801.328.4201
Admission is free and open to the public.
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