iThe Power Plant Contemporary Art GalleryHarbourfront
Sharon Lockhart: Fogo
Sharon Lockhart's Fogo Island Portrait Studio photographs and the film installation WINDWARD, a long, attentive look at Newfoundland's Fogo Island and its people.
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Preview: written before the show opened
A girl flings fish from a white bucket to a flock of gulls. Teenagers jump into the sea at sunset. These are scenes from WINDWARD, Sharon Lockhart's 70-minute film shot on the windward, northern face of Newfoundland's Fogo Island, where the kids are often so far off they nearly vanish into the grass.
The film runs as 12 fixed shots, about five minutes each by Artforum's count. On the walls is Fogo Island Portrait Studio: the same children photographed up close, in daylight against black, in a studio Lockhart set up in an old fishing shed. You go from kids the size of ants on screen to kids staring straight back at you. Not one phone appears in the film, which is more than anyone watching it can say.
Reviewing the film in 2025, Artforum said viewing it "ripens slowly in ways that can't be shortcut". That is also the catch: no story, no dialogue, just wind, birds and children's voices. Entry is free, and Fridays run until 8pm.
Editor's pick
Sharon Lockhart's Fogo Island Portrait Studio photographs hang alongside her film installation WINDWARD, a long look at the Newfoundland island and its people. Admission is free.
Look for
The gull feeding
Look for the girl flinging fish from a white bucket while a flock of hungry gulls closes in around her.
The boy on stilts
A boy on wooden stilts ambles past a red house with clouds piled up above it.
The sunset jump
A group of teenagers leaps into the ocean, their shoulders lit pink by the setting sun.
The kite shadow
A kite's shadow glides over a cliff before the kite itself floats into frame, with a red-shirted boy pulling the string below.
The portraits
In Fogo Island Portrait Studio each child poses alone in daylight against a black background, looking straight at the camera.
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- Sharon Lockhart: Fogo© Sharon Lockhart, 2025
- Returning to Ourselves: Rebecca Baird and Kenny Alvin Baird—A Retrospective of Art and Design by Cree Métis SiblingsPhoto by Luca Dichio
- Michael Massie: now and thenCourtesy of Fehely Fine Arts, photo by Renzo Fernandez
- body — mind — distanceCourtesy of Gallery 44 Centre for Contemporary Photography
- The Power Plant Contemporary Art GalleryCanmenwalker / Wikimedia Commons, CC BY 4.0
- Ontario Science Centre (Harbourfront Centre interim location)Mark Bradshaw, CC BY 3.0
- Toronto Railway MuseumCan Pac Swire / Wikimedia Commons, CC BY-SA 2.0
- Hockey Hall of FameJK Liu / Wikimedia Commons, CC BY-SA 4.0