THE GLOW OF TWO-THOUSAND MOONS

ANNIE BRIARD

OPENING SEPTEMBER 13, 2025

Royale Projects is pleased to announce Annie Briards’ The Glow of Two-Thousand Moons, an immersive installation, on view for a limited time, opening September 13, 2025 from 5-7pm and closing October 11, 2025. 

The Glow of Two-Thousand Moons invites viewers into a contemplative space shaped by light and color, to bask in the glow of an ever shifting pseudo moon seemingly cast from another realm.

In a machine performance orchestrated by Briard, three analog slide projectors cycle through over 240 hand-assembled slides, each a 35mm photograph of the clear, daylight sky shot through layered cinema gels. By overlapping these images, the synchronized projection produces an almost infinite amount of luminous hues, highlighting the principle that just three primary colors can produce the full spectrum of visible light. 

The visual composition generated simulates a lunar phenomenon while drawing attention to the nuanced mechanics of perception. Though we see the moon as inherently white, its color subtly shifts with atmospheric conditions and point of view. Briard’s work becomes metaphoric for the ways in which we each filter reality through our own subjective lens, shaped by personal history and perspective, allowing even a single shared moment to evoke countless different emotions. 

Arts Writers Meredyth Cole and Genevieve Michaels state: “No matter how earnestly we ignore our senses’ fallibility, it has a way of creeping in; blurred vision, wavering outlines, halos and auras brought on by the mutability of our consciousness and our shifting environment. For Annie Briard, human experience is delicate and fluid - in a sense, its own form of artistic expression.”

Annie Briard’s work has been featured in numerous exhibitions including presentations at Espacio de Cultura Contemporánea de Cádiz in Spain, AC Institute in New York City, Los Angeles Centre of Photography in California, Union Gallery at Queen’s University in Kingston Ontario, Manif d'art 10 biennale de Québec and BBA Gallery in Berlin, Germany as well as Vancouver Art Gallery, Capture Photography Festival, Alliance Francaise and Libby Leshgold Gallery at Emily Carr University in Vancouver BC. Briard has participated in several international residencies, including High Desert Test Sites in Joshua Tree, California, Banff Centre for the Arts in Alberta, Canada, and SIM in Reykjavik, Iceland. This is her second solo exhibition at Royale Projects in Los Angeles.