July 18 – August 7, 2011
Opening: July 22, 6 – 9pm
Artist Talk: July 22 at 7:30pm
THE RED HEAD GALLERY
401 Richmond St. W., Suite 115.
Toronto, ON M5V 3A8
T: 416 504-5654.
Email: art@redheadgallery.org.
www.redheadgallery.org.
Hours: Wed – Sa. 12 – 5 pm.
Dialogues on Uncertainty is a series of drawings that examines poetics of survival. Stability as a state of our ‘supposed’ well-being and success no longer exists in the contemporary world: space and time, place and non-place, clash through speed, only to be replaced by notions of adaptability and fluidity.
Referencing a contemporary experience of travel, mobility, and diasporas, this series focuses on materialising trajectories rather than destinations. Replacing the paintbrush, a miniature car drives automatically over Atlas—a classically painted human vertebra—through the duration of each phone-call. Taking the form of a journey, the disoriented trace the vehicle leaves behind underlines the nature of life in the dialogues created between space and place, here and there, past and future. Mapping time itself, these traces remain a course, a wandering, in the struggle to be positioned.
This exhibition is presented in conjunction with the Museum of Canadian Contemporary Art’s “This is Paradise.”