we can’t help but adapt not only our movements and postures to the installations, but also our minds to the dizzying and eclectic montages of images. Thanks to Steyerl, we are now ready for the future.
Passageways become increasingly inconvenient, and the amount of ‘stuff’ carried through the spaces become less, until we have seemingly come back to the same place, but it all looks different now, and so do we.
These spaces we are so familiar with – the Galleria and generic office spaces – are reintroduced in a way that redirects the human flow while heightening our awareness of the everyday sites we absent-mindedly shuffle through.
Scotiabank CONTACT Photography Festival
May-June, 2018 / Toronto and GTA
With so much choices, with well over 1500 Canadian and international artists and photographers exhibiting at more than 200 exhibitions, it isn’t easy picking exhibits to see.
By transporting these wayfinder markers to the gallery space, Los-Jones provides us with the navigational tools with which we can fearlessly explore our own personal terra incognita.
I am seduced by the shine and the stillness of Meirenyu’s poiesis. Can one create a real being out of a fictional myth? Steven Beckly’s poetic investigation contemplates this question.
Both artists are concerned with their respective obsessions, one of words and one of a specific horizontal form. Delving into these obsessions is an indulgent experience both for the eyes and the mind.