Out of Sight: New Acquisitions features works that have been added, through donation or purchase, to the Gallery's collection over the past two years, many of which will be on view for the first time. The exhibition is centred on the recent donation of 80 photographs by Harold Edgerton, who is credited with inventing ultra high-speed stroboscopic photography to capture events that occur too quickly to be viewed by the human eye. Taking Edgerton's remapping of the possibilities of space and time as a thematic starting point, New Acquisitions explores artists' engagement with ideas around perception and representation, challenging viewers to reconsider what it is we see in our everyday encounters. Artists include Harold Edgerton, Monique Fouquet, Charles Gagnon, Angela Grossmann, Elspeth Pratt and Etienne Zack, among many others. 

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Harold Edgerton
Milkdrop Coronet, 1957
dye transfer print
Collection of the Vancouver Art Gallery, Gift of Angela and David Feldman,
the Menkes Family, Marc and Alex Muzzo, Tory Ross, the Rose Baum-Sommerman Family,
Shabin and Nadir Mohamed