The Ken Segal Gallery is pleased to present Winnipeg artist Toby Bartlett’s 1st solo exhibition My Brain Is Haunted. Featured in this exhibition are photographs of people and places Bartlett encounters in his daily life. The exhibition is made up of around 24 images (out of 32 in the series) with 13 of them highlighted and printed in large formats. The show opens with an artist reception at our gallery, located at 4–433 River Ave., on July 12, 2007 from 6:30 to 8:30 pm and runs until August 4.

The photographs are taken over six months of Bartlett’s life in Winnipeg. They are a mixture of two major components of his daily life: People and Architecture. His ability to show how something beautiful can be so negative and something ugly can be so positive in a single image is impressive.

“My Brain Is Haunted is an exploration into people and places that cause me to have both a positive and negative reaction to them. The goal of the project was to try to convey both the positive and negative associations I have with a person or place in a single image, rather than having one beautiful/positive image and one ugly/negative one,” said Bartlett.

The exhibition highlights why today photography and the numerous ways images are now constructed have transformed photography’s relationship to reality. The proliferation of digital technologies in recent decades has further altered this understanding and transformed the nature of reality. The idea that photographs are constructed – that they represent versions of what we see, think about and experience – is no longer a contentious one, but rather a given.

For more information, an interview with the artist or press-ready images, please contact the gallery.