The Apparition of the Etheric Double
Support. London, ON
August 14 - September 17, 2021
Herma Stronsson with Mercury Bureau and Wesley Chau
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Somebody,
MKG127. Toronto, ON
July 6 - August 17, 2019
Lorna Bauer, Deanna Bowen, Vanessa Brown, Kara Hamilton, Karen Kraven, Graham Macaulay, Ella Dawn McGeough and Geoffrey Pugen
"Somebody" looks at work that engages with figuration through gestures that depict traces of activity, accessories, or fragmented representations of its form.
These renderings point to manifestations of self that are in continuous states of flux, constituted through processes of erasure, accumulation and revision. They are adjacent to the illustrative and intact, separate from any notion of fixity. Instead, their malleability foregrounds agency and favours the possibility of impermanence and fluidity.
Though tactile and material in their approach, these works speak to the absence of their subject, and to the temporality of the constructed self. The figure is not replete; it is formlessness being continually reshaped, a process that is illuminated through the objects and imprints that persist. Vestiges of iterative selves have the potential to seed new thoughts and formations elsewhere. In this shifting of contexts, it is not the form itself that is of significance, but these moments of/in transformation.
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Casing
Support. London, ON
November 30 - January 10, 2020
Trevor Baird, Louis Bouvier, Oliver Husain, Colin Miner, Jennifer Murphy, Christine Negus
What does it mean when the multitude gravitates towards a particular thing. What is it about this thing that haunts us, that inserts itself into our imaginative potential, that manifests as a recurrence. How does it speak for us, how does it speak differently or to the same point, or to the same point but in a different tone. This invocation may be out of time or it may be acknowledging a historical lineage; it may be desperate or in dialogue with its contemporary counterparts. In each of these cases the result is similar -- an intermittent murmur, one that gestures towards something that is now or again poignant; a marker that illuminates and questions.
The exhibition “Casing” focuses on the motif of the shell. Fragile, small, variable, symmetrical, pearlescent, a home, a husk, a tool, a currency, a resource, a listening device, a sounding mechanism, of nature, of decoration, of scientific classification or archeological relic. Often associated with fertility, erotiscism, death, reincarnation, divination and mysticism; or in the instance of the nautilus shell’s geometric spiral, an organizational principle, a mathematical structure or compositional arrangement that connotes precision and perfection.
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Sorry, I'm busy
Support. London, ON
December 22 - January 19, 2019
Co-curated with Tegan Moore
Kotama Bouabane, Susanna Browne, Aryen Hoekstra, Shane Krepakevich, Maryse Larivière, Anna Madelska, Trevor Mahovsky, Kim Neudorf, Jonathan Onyschuk, Jacquelyn Ross, Niloufar Salimi.
Sorry, I’m Busy is an exhibition that explores the potential for connections in artistic practice and work ethic, through a bringing together of individuals who share the same astrological sign--Capricorn.
Self-controlled, responsible, disciplined, ambitious, loyal, practical, cautious, territorial, shy, touch oriented, meticulous. Someone who applies value to the unseen, the failed, underappreciated, or the difficult to understand.
The impetus for grounding an exhibition in this context, comes from our interest in how astrology is used as an orientation tool, a predictive guide, and as a method for navigating the social. We consider the alternative logic of astrology, its increasing visibility and invocation, a marker of today's precarity.
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what things are for
Support
June 05 - June 30, 2018
Micah Adams, Mercury Bureau, Heather Goodchild, Shane Krepakevich, Jimmy Limit, Naomi Yasui