Bridget Moser, video still from My Crops Are Dying But My Body Persists, 2020. HD video, color, sound, 21:57 min. Courtesy of the artist

Bridget Moser, My Crops Are Dying But My Body Persists (2020). Installation view, Like everything alive that we try to hold forever, Esker Foundation, Calgary, Canada, 2024. (Photo: Blaine Campbell)

Larry Achiampong and David Blandy, video still from Dust to Data, 2021. Video installation with sound, 15:25 min. Courtesy of the artists and Seventeen and Copperfield galleries.

Installation view, Like everything alive that we try to hold forever, Esker Foundation, Calgary, Canada, 2024. (Photo: Blaine Campbell)

Miya Turnbull, Origami Self-Portraits (2021-2023). Installation view, Like everything alive that we try to hold forever, Esker Foundation, Calgary, Canada, 2024. (Photo: Blaine Campbell)

Stephanie Dinkins, Conversations with Bina48: Fragments 7, 6, 5, 2 (2018). Installation view, Like everything alive that we try to hold forever, Esker Foundation, Calgary, Canada, 2024. (Photo: Blaine Campbell)

Diane Borsato, Artifacts in My Mouth (detail), 2003. Photograph. Courtesy of the artist.

Diane Borsato, video still from Gems and Minerals, 2018. Video projection with sound, 25 min. Courtesy of the artist.

Sondra Perry, video still from IT’S IN THE GAME, 2017. Video projection with sound, Chroma Key Blue paint, 16:32 min. Courtesy of Electronic Arts Intermix (EAI), New York.

Sondra Perry, IT’S IN THE GAME (2017). Installation view, Like everything alive that we try to hold forever, Esker Foundation, Calgary, Canada, 2024. (Photo: Blaine Campbell)