Russell Gendron is a multidisciplinary artist whose work deals with our relationships with one another and the world around us. Through music, sound art and photography Gendron attempts to capture and transpose the connections (human or otherwise) that make up the materiality of everyday life. (Artist photo and bio courtesy of Russell Gendron)
Summary of Project
The Mill is a multimedia investigation led by artist Russell Gendron into sawmill culture and closures in Sḵwx̱wú7mesh territory (Squamish BC). Through a combination of sound, photography and installation, Gendron will use first person accounts, including his own experiences as a boy working in sawmills, to explore the role deindustrialization has played in his own family, in the lives of locals, and how these experiences might inform our understandings of working people’s place in the world moving forward.
Photo courtesy of Francesca Marconi