Senza Bussola (No compass), 2011, 3×4 feet, acrylic on canvas
November 2 – 13, 2011
Opening: Thursday, November 3, 7 pm
GALLERY 1313 Cell Gallery
1313 Queen Street West,
Toronto, ON M6K 1K8
T: 416 – 536-6778
E mail: director@g1313.org
www.gallery13131.org
Hours: Wed – Sun 1- 6
Riconciliazione: molti anni di limbi (Reconciliation: many years in limbo)
Works by Zoraida is a Colombian-born Canadian artist with little formal art training. She has studied at Les Arts Décoratifs (Paris), and The Art Students League of New York (NY).
This body of work attempts to deconstruct the negative nuance attached to the experiences felt in the unreal state and place called the limbo. The structure of the limbo seems to be founded on the notions of directionless, nothingness and hopelessness. These, however, do not have to be bad encounters.
Does it not feel good to experience the reconciliation of opposing forces like the not here but not there …. not heaven but not hell…not right but not wrong? These could be the points of reconciliation between oneself and the world.
Thus these paintings hope to turn the limbo into a positive state and place where one can discover: the free zone which is one’s own sacred space and it can be anywhere. As well, the viewer could meet the still point which is known as the moment that changes us.