Valérie Frappier profiles Alana Bartol, whose recent work has explored the obfuscating nature of state and corporate communication around extractive sites. Having visited abandoned mines, ghost towns, visitor interpretation centres, museums, and sites proposed for new developments in Southern Alberta, Bartol seeks to ensure that harm remains legible in narratives around settler-colonial extraction.

Valérie Frappier reviews The Shoreline Dilemma exhibited at the Toronto Biennial of Art (September 21–December 1, 2019).