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Saskatchewan Maritime Museum

Todd Gronsdahl – 2022

“By playing, tampering and reconfiguring archival documentation, Gronsdahl intentionally legitimizes mythologies, loosely retracing residual marks of past events.”

Todd Gronsdahl’s interdisciplinary practice challenges truth, fiction and the construction of historical narratives. The exhibition is an immersive installation of fictional museum exhibits, employing irony to highlight the randomness of museum and archive logic. By playing, tampering and reconfiguring archival documentation, Gronsdahl intentionally legitimizes mythologies, loosely retracing residual marks of past events.

Read the exhibition response here.

Watch the Virtual Artist Talk here.

Saskatchewan Maritime Museum opened in the Main and State of Flux Galleries  on February 1, 2022.

Photos by Chris Miner.

About the Artist

Todd Gronsdahl
 

Todd Gronsdahl is an artist from Saskatchewan working primarily in sculpture and drawing. Through the use of humour and narrative, Gronsdahl’s work complicates official histories and legitimizing mythologies. Informed by folk art and self-taught practioners, Gronsdahl treats his subject matter with a rural sensibility. Through a practical repurposing of vernacular forms and found materials, coupled with an intuitive approach to building, his work often has an unrefined or pragmatic aesthetic. Gronsdahl’s sculptures and drawings are charged with narrative potential. Each project emerges from invented stories and colorful characters that speak to his experience. His artwork is an enactment of these elaborate fictions with his sculptures, in particular, functioning not unlike museum replicas or artifacts.

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