Billy Gauthier: Sila

I contributed a chapter on the work of Billy Gauthier for his exhibition publication that was produced as part of the larger exhibition project Billy Gauthier: Sila held at KWAG in 2024. Here is a link to purchase the catalog.

More information about the publication:
The exhibition formed a starting point, this monograph aims to be more than a standard exhibition catalogue.  Featuring all new photography commissioned just for this publication, readers can see Gauthier’s work like never before. The gorgeous images are supported by a series of commissioned essays that critically situated the artist’s work internationally, art historically, socially, and in terms of the underlying activism that drives his productivity. The images are organized along the same thematic families as the exhibition at KWAG, tracing an outline of the original viewing experience. The publication also includes sections from beyond the exhibition, most notably one dedicated to the artist’s most significant work to date, The Earth, Our Mother. 

Contributors:

Texts by Darryn Doull, Nigel Reading, Logan MacDonald, Martha Cerny and Natascha Cerny-Ehtesham. Stories by Billy Gauthier. Foreword by Shirley Madill.  

Designer: Mark Bennett
Copy Editor: Alison Kenzie
Publisher: Kitchener-Waterloo Art Gallery

ISBN: 978-1-897543-34-4 (hardcover)