05/28/2026
OPENING TOMORROW NIGHT AT 7PM AT DELUGE AND ONLINE!
Instant Karma
35th Anniversary Celebration & Fundraiser
Join us on May 29 for a late spring celebration of 35 years of media and visual art programming and the opening of Instant Karma, a fundraising exhibition informed by chance and imagination.
Instant photography has been an important medium for artists since its introduction in the middle of the 20th century, through its near demise and resurrection in recent decades. As a link between project-based practice and a record of everyday life, it is a living image paralleling artistic process and labour—a format that requires adaptation, imagination, an embracement of chance and the unexpected. These qualities continue to inform the mandate and programming of Deluge and Antimatter, the artists and communities we serve.
Every instant photo is unique and irreproducible, a one-of-a-kind art object representing a singular time and place. What you see through the viewfinder is not always what you get, but whether decisive moment or impeccable accident, it is always unedited and unfiltered—the sanctity of the first draft versus the crafted illusion of digital or social media.
Featuring the instant photographs of 40+ artists, works in Instant Karma will be for sale in the gallery and online, with the website sales portal going live at 7pm on May 29 to coincide with the opening celebration at Deluge. Funds raised will support our new initiative Little Skies: Moving Image Art for Youth, slated for this November.
Photo diptych: Laura Dutton, untitled
Laura Dutton is a photo/video-based artist working and living in Victoria, BC on the unceded territory of the lək̓ʷəŋən peoples. She is an Associate Teaching Professor in the Visual Arts Department at the University of Victoria and received an MFA from the University of Victoria in 2011 and a BFA from Concordia University, Montréal in 2006. Dutton works with photography and video installation to unravel the materiality of lens-based images and disrupt our ability to look straight through to the referent described. By obscuring, degrading or removing the subject matter altogether, her images reveal their own process and become distilled suggestions of what once stood before the lens, offering an epistemological space for the viewer to meditate on the act of seeing and knowing.
Daphne Dutton
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