Lana Z Caplan featured in Deluge Contemporary Art
A program of artists’ films that convoke elemental spirits and the power of nature in a time of human-made catastrophe—a command for light against impending darkness. Viewable in the Deluge transom window (dusk to midnight).
patches of snow in july
Summoned
Lana Z Caplan | Gloria Chung | Abinadi Meza | Mike Rollo
December 14, 2024 to January 11, 2025
A program of artists’ films that convoke elemental spirits and the power of nature in a time of human-made catastrophe—a command for light against impending darkness. Viewable in the Deluge transom window (dusk to midnight). The program of films is also available to view online during the exhibition.
Patches of Snow in July
Lana Z Caplan, 2017, 8 min
Mythology and religious fanaticism, climate deniers and environmental profiteers, natural disasters and the end of radio, all reflected in the mirror of a morphing landscape, poised for new devastation.
Lana Z Caplan makes experimental films, photographs and installations. Her projects are inspired by the intersection of history and the contemporary, with a focus on environmental and social justice topics. Her recent photographic monograph, Oceano (for seven generations) published by Kehrer Verlag in 2023, contrasts the historic inhabitants of California’s Oceano Dunes—Indigenous Chumash and depression-era artist and mystic squatters—with the current ATV riding community that is the source of a public health crisis in neighbouring communities. Her work has been exhibited and screened in solo and group exhibitions in cities around the world including Beijing, New York, San Francisco, San Juan, Edinburgh, Mexico City, Philadelphia, Boston, Edinburgh, New Delhi, Tel Aviv, Valparaiso and Barcelona. Caplan is currently an Associate Professor of Photography and Video at Cal Poly, in San Luis Obispo.
Deluge Contemporary Art is located at 636 Yates Street (near Broad) in Victoria, British Columbia, Canada.
Housed in the top floor of the city’s first fire hall and named to reflect the history of this building and its original inhabitants, Deluge represents a vanguard of national and international visual and media arts in Victoria.