Permanent installation · Calgary
Alt Hotel
A permanent installation drawn from The Living Breathing Street: more than 170 Calgary street photographs in the lobby’s Altexpo mosaic and seven large prints across the hotel’s exterior.
The project
A city, accumulated.
The installation draws on years of photographing Calgary’s downtown streets. Small observations gather into a larger field: gestures, reflections, buildings, weather, people passing, and the changing texture of the city.
The lobby work follows the Altexpo concept used by Alt Hotels to connect each property to its location. In Calgary East Village, that became a mosaic of more than 170 images fromThe Living Breathing Street. Images extend from the wall across the ceiling in what the hotel identified as its first Altexpo presented in three dimensions. Seven photographs were also printed at architectural scale for the exterior.
Exterior installation
Built into the street.
Seven large photographs are installed along the outside of the hotel. Lit after dark, they can be seen from the street.
Documented installation
What is there.
- Source body
- The Living Breathing Street
- Photograph period
- 2011–2018
- Lobby
- Altexpo mosaic · more than 170 images
- Format
- Alt Hotels’ first three-dimensional Altexpo presentation
- Exterior
- Seven large-format prints
- Location
- Alt Hotel Calgary East Village
- Launch
- November 29, 2018
- Archive record
- Launch-night lobby photographs · exterior photographed January 30, 2019
The Calgary installation was Alt Hotels’ first Altexpo to extend from the wall onto the ceiling. The photographs, made between 2011 and 2018, are credited on-site to local photographer i.m. ruzz.
Read theCalgary Herald feature on Alt Hotel Calgary East Village.