March 27 – April 7, 2012
Opening: Thursday, March 29, 7–9 p.m.
UNIVERSITY OF TORONTO ART CENTRE
15 King’s College Circle
Toronto, ON, M5S 3H7
T: 416.946.3029
E: carmen.victor@utoronto.ca
Hours: Tue–Fri 12–5, Sat 12–4 p.m.
The works of Francisco-Fernando Granados, Matt Macintosh and Faye Mullen intersect in an investigation of absence, silence and emptiness. Through mediated experiences of performance, video, sculpture and photography, these three MVS graduating students explore the limits of representation through an individual and collective meditation of states of knowing and unknowing.
Francisco-Fernando Granados
How to address the absence of recognition? Apostrophe comes from the Greek apóstrophos, meaning eliding, or turning away. As a rhetorical device, the apostrophe marks the moment when a speaker turns away from the audience as a means to address an absent character on the scene. They sometimes begin with an ‘O,’ like in one case in Shakespeare’s Romeo and Juliet: “O, Romeo, Romeo, wherefore art thou…?”
Matt Macintosh
Matt Macintosh’s work looks at reificatory tendencies in subject–object relations by separating subjects from objects. In two suites of images derived from archived photographs, female lab technicians producing penicillin during World War II assume strangely liturgical poses when the technologies they use are digitally removed, effectively reincarnated as devotional objects.
Faye Mullen
Faye Mullen employs the body to speculate on theories concerning loss, lack and limitation. Her work is informed by the deceitfulness of representing what is unattainable, unavailable, and unrepresentable. In failure, Faye’s practice is concerned with the threshold of existence. Her works are not attempts to represent but are simply articulations of the threshold. Through video, installation and performance, Faye poses the figure, the ground, the folds in hopes not to sentence what cannot be made visual but to come a small step closer to knowing that threshold.
