Credit: Alana Bartol and Bryce Krynski, all roses sleep (inviolate light), 2022, ultraviolet video (14 minutes 02 seconds).
all roses sleep (inviolate light)
Following the perspective of a solitary bee on a journey through the prairies in search of a wild rose, this immersive video by Alana Bartol and Bryce Krynski blends how bees and humans experience the land around us.
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The accompanying scratch and sniff card expands on the pleasant and pungent experience of pumpjacks, grazing cattle, prairie grasses, and wildflowers. Through multiple senses, the viewer steps into the world of a bee. With this new perspective, all roses sleep (inviolate light) invites us to dream about our shared future with the living beings around us.
Shot with an ultraviolet-converted digital camera, the viewer can see through a bee’s vision, which consists of ultraviolet light invisible to the human eye. As the bee travels from farmland to oil field, the viewer is immersed in the journey through scents that correspond to each landscape on the accompanying scratch-and-sniff card. While smell expands upon the sensory experience, the video’s first-person narrative evokes empathy by relating how the bee perceives and responds to the surroundings.
Artists Alana Bartol and Bryce Krynski will be speaking online with artist Lori Weidenhammer on October 19.
all roses sleep (inviolate light) is supported with funding from Alberta Foundation for the Arts and Alberta University of the Arts.
About the Artists
Alana Bartol and Bryce Krynski (Mohkínstsis/Calgary) are moving image and interdisciplinary artists. Their independent and collaborative works examine resource extraction, settler-colonial agricultural systems, and loss of biodiversity. They often employ participatory, sensory experiences as a way to de-centre human perception. all roses sleep (inviolate light) is their first collaborative film.
Curators: Jordan Strom, Zoe Yang
Origin of Exhibition: Art Gallery of Alberta