Tiny Art By Alberta's Curtis Talwst Santiago Stirs Big Feelings
(Photo: Curtis Talwst Santiago, Dat DJ Real Nice Yes?, 2020. Courtesy Art Gallery of Alberta.) In Edmonton, a Kangol-wearing uncle sifts through crates of records, selecting a tune to pump through a set of massive speakers. In St. John’s, N.L., a tangle of barbed wire surrounds a bleak, empty prison yard. Two very different scenes, both rendered in engaging miniature form by Alberta-born Curtis Talwst Santiago, whose work is currently showing both on the Atlantic coast and in the prairie city where he grew up. Both exhibits draw from his Infinity Series, an ongoing project of mixed-media di...
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