Date: Sep 10, 2024
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In 2013-14, the AFA partnered with the Allied Arts Council of Lethbridge to fund the commission of David Hoffos' The People in the Window at Casa. In September 2024, the council hosted a celebration to commemorate the 10th anniversary of the commission with music, art and a cash bar.
AFA Board member, Andrea True Joy Fox, was pleased to attend the event and bring greetings on behalf of the Foundation.
About the artwork
This site-specific intervention in the Casa display window combines and develops some of the illusion techniques that are signature to David Hoffos' work.
Video portraits were shot in July 2014 at the South Country Fair, Fort Macleod’s long-running annual music and arts festival where people of all ages gather to enjoy leisure time and share a cultural experience. Within this casual and friendly atmosphere a diverse group of participants suggest both a tight-knit “family” or sub-culture, and also a cross-section of their larger community.
The People in the Window is an unexpected eruption of wonder into the everyday; and a ghostly, shifting, perpetual reminder of summers gone by.
The commission of this work was awarded by the Alberta Foundation for the Arts in partnership with the Allied Arts Council of Lethbridge.
About the artist
David Hoffos is an internationally recognized, Lethbridge-based artist in film, video, and installation art with more than 20 years of independent practice. Hoffos grew up in Australia and Calgary before moving to study, live and work in Lethbridge, Alberta.
Hoffos received a Bachelor of Fine Arts with Great Distinction from the University of Lethbridge in 1994. He has since been invited to several residencies, including three at the Banff Centre (now Banff Centre for Arts and Creativity). He placed second in the 2002 Sobey Art Award.
Read the artist's statement about The People in the Window (PDF).
David is represented by six artworks in the AFA Art Collection. Click the button below to view his works and read his full bio.