January 20 - March 4, 2017

Sarah Hatton – Detachment

Visual Voice Gallery is delighted to present "Detachment," a series of large-format works by artist Sarah Hatton.
"Detachment" involves the use of thousands of historical brass fasteners taken from the original WWI files of the Canadian Expeditionary Force. Library and Archives Canada has provided the artist with the brass from their mass digitization of 650,000 soldiers' files. Hatton used these 100 year old artifacts to create a series of large-scale star charts. These charts show how the stars would have appeared on the final day of several major battles of the First World War, based upon their respective dates and geographic location.