For Those Who Chose the Sea

Stanley Wany

MEDIUM Mixed media installation
DATE 2021
ACCESSION NUMBER 2024.08.01a-c
CREDIT LINE Collection of the Ottawa Art Gallery: purchased with the support of the Stonecroft Foundation as well as the Elizabeth L. Gordon Art Program, a program of the Gordon Foundation and administrated by the Ontario Arts Foundation, 2024.
CATALOGUE DESCRIPTION
A mixed media installation composed of three elements – a large-scale 15-minute video projection of the Atlantic Ocean; a wooden sculptural representation of the confined spaces that were found below decks on slave ships; and a two-dimensional artwork titled De Perpetua Memoria.

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