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see you there // meet me here: echoes of eau claire
Curated by Jessica Szeto
Featuring
Brady Fullerton, Danny Luong
and Stephen Chan
May 23 – July 12, 2025
One year after Eau Claire Market’s closure, see you there // meet me here: echoe of eau claire investigates the complicated emotions and memories surrounding what we may be losing or gaining with the demolition of this iconic mall.
Through installations and found objects, as well as still images, video work, and audio captured in the final weeks before the mall's official closure in May 2024, this exhibition showcases the mall during the last few moments of its 30-year life.
Throughout its history, the mall struggled with its identity, and underwent varying states of growth, decline, and uncertainty. Even now, in its death throes, the demolition site remains in a state of ambiguity about its future.
Through installations and found objects, as well as still images, video work, and audio captured in the final weeks before the mall's official closure in May 2024, this exhibition showcases the mall during the last few moments of its 30-year life.
Throughout its history, the mall struggled with its identity, and underwent varying states of growth, decline, and uncertainty. Even now, in its death throes, the demolition site remains in a state of ambiguity about its future.
Part of mourning is collective remembering.
Each person's experience of the mall was unique, often contextualized by when they visited the mall and what resonated with them at that time. In that spirit, this show also provides a space for visitors to formally document all these rich, nuanced memories, and add them to our exhibition. As a community, we can gather here and remember this mall, its artifice, and its relationship to our own personal histories.
How do we remember something that was never fully realized?
How do we collectively mourn an imperfect thing?
| Jessica Szeto (she/her) is a multi-disciplinary artist, writer, and software developer born in and based in Mohkinsstsis/Calgary. Her interests are wide-ranging and diverse, but her work often explores the intersections between technology, colonialism, and personal history. She often collaborates with other local artists on a variety of digital and media projects. She has a BSc in Computer Science from the University of Calgary. Her written work has been shown at Lougheed House, Heritage Park, Calgary Chinese Cultural Centre, TRUCK Contemporary Art, and published in Yolkless Press’ Colonial Imports. Currently, she is part of Chromatic Theatre’s Playwrights Unit for the 2024/2025 season. Brady Fullerton (he/him) is a lens-based artist and academic whose work explores themes of trauma, masculinity, isolation, mental health, addiction, and beauty, through a visual exploration of the quotidian and mundane. He holds a Ph.D. in Philosophy and uses a photographic documentary style to approach philosophical questions through art, as well as navigate his mental health. His award-winning photographic work has been exhibited in solo exhibitions, group exhibitions, online, and in print. Currently, he is working on several projects including Nowhere, a lens-based exploration of trauma and memory in his hometown of Drumheller, Alberta. This work is generously funded by the Alberta Foundation for the Arts. Danny Luong is an emerging photographer based in Moh’kinsstis on traditional Treaty 7 land. Luong is interested in ancestral lineages and the effects of history on generations of migrants. With an emphasis on duality, Luong’s graphic style recalls both snapshots and gritty photojournalism from a mix of medium format, 35mm, and digital stills. Luong’s subjects emphasize the tribulations of generations, shared cultural values and the effects of displacement on first and second generation Canadian lives. Luong won an emerging photographer award at the Exposure Photo Festival in 2023. Luong has shown work with Art Toronto, Alberta Society of Artists, Arts Commons, Asian Heritage Foundation Calgary and was selected to be part of the Exposure Studio Collective. In 2024, Luong was a recipient of a Canada Council for the Arts Project to Realization grant for work on a solo show at The Bows artist run centre in Calgary for 2025. Stephen Chan is a self-taught film photographer born and raised in Calgary. He graduated from the University of Calgary with a degree in Geomatics Engineering, which involves the collection, integration and analysis of geospatial data. Stephen takes inspiration from his engineering background to explore the metaphysical relationships between people and their constructed environments. Using elegant, formal compositions, he documents urban decay, architectural details, liminal spaces and typological comparisons. By capturing dynamic spaces in empty stillness, Stephen asks us to take a moment to observe how our surroundings evolve over time. Stephen’s photographic career began with the Emerging Photographers Showcase at the Exposure Photography Festival in 2022 and 2023. He was then featured in the Window Galleries at Arts Commons with the 2023 RBC Emerging Visual Artists Program, at multiple Alberta Society of Artists group shows in 2024, and the cover photo of Shutterhub’s “Night Moods” photobook. Stephen is the recipient of a grant from Calgary Arts Development to produce a photobook about Eau Claire Market titled “Eau Claire Nowhere”, due for release in late 2025. |