New Exhibition: Visible Storage — Richard Clements

Richard Clements’ Visible Storage explores how language, perception, and cultural beliefs shape our understanding of reality, history, and the world around us through sculptures made from diverse materials.

Exhibition dates: November 16, 2026 – January 31, 2027

The Underground Gallery at Fluevog Calgary
207 8 Avenue Southwest
Calgary, AB T2P 1B7

Gallery Hours
Mon, Tue, Thu, Fri, Sat: 10:00 a.m. - 6:00 p.m.
Wed, Sun: 12:00 p.m. - 6:00 p.m.

About the Exhibition:

Richard Clements’ practice is concerned with structural affinities between language, perception, and culture. Perception—as guided by language—gives form and meaning to our world hence projecting realities. We habitually remain unconscious to this projection, assuming the perceived existence of an independent and objectively existing world. In turn, our world of thought (theologies, politics, sciences, and cultures) and our material world (architecture and objects) mirror these structures, calcifying hegemonic belief.

In Visible Storage, Clements is concerned primarily with our natural inclination to impose narrative, pattern, and causality upon unrelated moments of perception, and how, in turn, these operations conjure and concretize relationships between myth, symbol, and history. The title of the exhibition refers to the public access of a museum’s collection. These displays are often cacophonous, grouping objects by material, size, or accession number rather than curated historical narratives. Within Clements’ exhibition these displays function as analogous thresholds negotiating the public and the private, order and disorder, the given and the concealed, and physical reality and metaphysical ideation—all in relation to our positioning of the past in our present. Visible Storage uses these ideas as a conceptual hub to explore the tenuousness of knowledge, our complicity in history, and the beauty of the withdrawn. Clements’ sculptures animate these concerns via historical reference, material dialogue, and formal composition. Both floor and wall based work are featured, made from such materials steel, plastic, glass, bronze, wood, and water. At the centre of the exhibition is Courtroom Study #7, where the unstable indexical fidelity of the courtroom drawing is recontextualized within a narrative frieze relief sculpture.

About the Artist:

Richard Clements is an artist who studies phenomenology, the occult, structures of consciousness, and linguistic philosophy. Currently, he is Associate Professor at AUArts, teaching in Sculpture. After completing his BFA (sculpture) at The Alberta College of Art and Design in 2005 he went on to study Fine Art at Goldsmiths College, acquiring his MFA in 2007. Since then, his work has been supported by the Canada Council of the Arts and the Alberta Foundation for the Arts, and he has exhibited nationally and internationally. 

Previous exhibits include The Burrard Arts Foundation (Vancouver), CSA Space (Vancouver), The Nickle Gallery (Calgary), Room Arte (Milan), Fold Gallery (London), Atlas House (Ipswich), Tender Pixel Gallery (London), CACT Gallery (Bellinzona), and Forum Stadt Park (Graz).