Chris Currerri, Untitled, from the series The Bicycle Race, 2002
The Found
and The Familiar
Snapshots in Contemporary Canadian Art
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by Sophie Hackett and Jennifer Long October/November 2002 Gallery TPW 80 Spadina Ave, Suite 310 Toronto, Ontario, M5V 2J4 |
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Chris Currerri, Untitled, from the series The Bicycle Race, 2002 |
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Found and the Familiar: Snapshots in Contemporary Canadian Art
brings together eleven artists who use snapshots in their work and consists
of approximately twenty-nine works, both two- and three-dimentional. The
genre of working with snapshots has a history; artists have been mining
this vernacular image bank for years, before an appreciation for such photographs
became commonplace. The artists in this exhibition are senior artists Barbara
Astman, Max Dean and Vid Ingelevics; mid-career artists Sara Angelucci,
Nancy Friedland, Clint Griffin, Germaine Koh and Nina Levitt; and emerging
artists Dean Baldwin, Chris Curreri and Adrienne Lai. They create work that
can be divided into two categories: those who use images from their personal
archive and those who use found snapshots. Artists have effectively used snapshots to create, express and represent a distance from their personal history, surroundings and relationships. In The Found and the Familiar: Snapshots in Contemporary Canadian Art, snapshots have been cut, stitched, photocopied and combined with other images and media. They exist as fragments divorced from their original context. By recasting the snapshots, the artists reveal a subtle dialogue of mourning, frustration, nostalgia, loneliness and longing. |
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| Necessary
Fiction and the Quiet Victory of Sheer Persistence by Sophie Hackett |