On a recent visit to Edinburgh, I came across the work of Canadian artists Janet Cardiff and George Bures Miller. They were exhibiting at The Fruitmarket Gallery, and one of the series exhibited was called Roadtrip.

© Cardiff and Miller, 2004

For ‘Roadtrip’ the artists found a carousel of slides, mostly of empty landscapes, that originally belonged to George’s grandfather. His grandfather, whom he had never met, had traveled across Canada to meet with a doctor in New York for the cancer that he was dying from. The slides are projected onto a screen, while out of two audio speakers a conversation between the artists can be heard discussing the order and reason for the slides, trying to discover the mystery behind the images.

You can see more images from the series here.

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