June 29 – July 06, 2022

School of Art Student Gallery

Remnants is a re-examination of Timothy Brown’s Bachelor of Fine Arts thesis exhibition, Escape Velocity. Originally exhibited at Brandon University in February of 2017, Escape Velocity explored isolation and the escape from this state through visual interpretations of the equation for escape velocity (the speed needed to escape a body of gravity).  Remnants re-arranges the former anthropological aesthetic into something abandoned, allowing the viewer to interact with the existing pieces and to discover what was left behind. What was once contained pristinely on walls, plinths, in alcoves and rooms, now sits in ruin. 

The exhibition consists of wall drawings, maps, equation sheets, scrolls, a mixed media sculpture and unfired ceramic ghosts.  Each piece has been left in a different condition, some preserved better than others.  The ghosts have been left free to roam, and the drawings fall off the walls, obscuring the original intention, lost to time and neglect.  Remnants takes the culmination of a fine arts undergraduate education and challenges the gallery aesthetic, making us question what happens to artwork after it has lost its value.