“The Light of Six Moons” refers back to an expanded photography installation made by the artist (The Light of Two Thousand Moons) through which thousands of color combinations were created by chance, through the layering of 240 35mm slides shot by the artist. Each image was of the clear, daylit sky as viewed through cinema lighting gels (transparent, tinted material used to create lighting effects in film). Working with seven colors, Briard mixed and layered them to create countless variations and tones, a nod to the fact that only three colours combine to create the limitless spectrum of hues visible to the human eye. Briard asks us to consider how our own perception could be seen to act as another gel, or filter, shading our vision and altering reality. The cyclical projections from the installation also evokes the stages of the moon, itself a blank canvas coloured by human subjectivity. Fittingly, while we perceive the moon to be white, it shifts in colour depending on the circumstances through which we perceive it.

About the Artist:
Annie Briard challenges visual perception through expanded photography to emphasize paradigms across the fields of ecology, psychology and neuroscience. Her works have been presented across Canada and internationally including at the Vancouver Art Gallery, the Manif d’art Quebec Biennale, Three Shadows Photography Centre (Beijing), the Lincoln Film Centre New York, the AC Institute (NYC), the Switzerland Architecture Museum (Basel), among many others. She has undertaken residencies at High Desert Test sites in California, SIM in Iceland, the Banff Centre for the Arts, Eastside Los Angeles and others. Briard is a Lecturer in photography and media art at Emily Carr University of Art + Design. Beginning her practice in Montreal, she is currently based in Vancouver on the unceded ancestral lands of the Sḵwx̱wú7mesh (Squamish), Səl̓ílwətaʔ/Selilwitulh (Tsleil-Waututh) and xʷməθkʷəy̓əm (Musqueam) Nations.