Generously supported by the RBC Foundation
For this video, artist Amanda Boulos invited Canadian Art into her temporary Banff Centre studio. Boulos is perhaps best known for paintings that grow out of her family’s stories of the Lebanese Civil War and the 1948 war in Palestine; she has written that “I rely on painting to archive inherited ancestral knowledge and history while emphasizing that this information is not simple or univocal, but instead endlessly complicated and constantly changing.” In Banff’s cedars and mountains, Boulos perceived parallels to Lebanon and in the tales of Bigfoot and Sasquatch, she felt correspondences with some of the more elusive and Herculean personalities in her family’s past. The result, worked out in the studio, is a remarkable, often surprising blend of botanical research and mythic revisioning, of geographic transposition and personal translation.
