May 4 – July 21, 2012
Opening: Thursday, May 3, 7 – 10 p.m.
Prefix Institute of Contemporary Art
401 Richmond St. W.
Toronto, ON, M5V 3A8
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Prefix Institute of Contemporary Art is pleased to announce Half of the Darkness, by Québecois artist Pascal Grandmaison, which opens next Thursday, May 3rd from 7 to 10 p.m.
Whether realized in the medium of photography, video, sculpture or installation, the work of Pascal Grandmaison consistently engages with the history and technology of photography. Drawing on the medium’s specific properties as a mode of visual representation, the artist creates his unique formal, conceptual and aesthetic universe. In keeping with these themes, Half of the Darkness presents over 300 negative photographic prints as a means to consider the history of photography, its subjective and constructed nature and its ability to produce an infinite number of reproductions from a single negative.
The exhibition is curated by Scott McLeod and accompanied by an essay by Anja Bock, published in Prefix Photo 25.