{"id":5835,"date":"2011-11-25T16:30:07","date_gmt":"2011-11-25T16:30:07","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.artoronto.ca\/?p=5835"},"modified":"2011-12-14T22:46:50","modified_gmt":"2011-12-14T22:46:50","slug":"the-grey-area-pascal-paquette-cindy-blazevic","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/artoronto.ca\/?p=5835","title":{"rendered":"The Grey Area:Pascal Paquette &#038; Cindy Blazevic"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.artoronto.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/11\/Blazevic_No2_Low1.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-5854\" title=\"Blazevic_No2_Low\" src=\"http:\/\/www.artoronto.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/11\/Blazevic_No2_Low1.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"308\" height=\"432\" \/><\/a><\/strong>Cindy Blazevic<\/p>\n<p><strong>November 30 \u2013 December 11, 2011<\/strong><strong><\/strong><br \/>\nOpening: Friday, December 2, 7 pm<br \/>\n<strong><\/strong><strong>GALLERY 1313\u00a0Main Gallery<\/strong><br \/>\n1313 Queen Street West,<br \/>\nToronto, ON M6K 1K8<br \/>\nT: 416 \u2013 536-6778<br \/>\nE mail: director@g1313.org<br \/>\nwww.gallery13131.org<br \/>\nHours: Wed \u2013 Sun 1- 6<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">Step aside flags, anthems, invented traditions and overworked symbols of identity, you who were cultivated as mechanisms of inclusion and exclusion, but whose negative assertions of nationalism bore so much responsibility for the havoc of the 1990s.\u00a0 In this new post-war order, the shared heritage of rebuilding and the efforts to join the EU \u2014 perceived symbol of civilization, modernity and wealth\u2014have become the new pan-Balkan identity, binding and tethering society, complete with its own culture and insignia.\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.artoronto.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/11\/Paquette_EUNeHvala_Low1.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-5856\" title=\"Paquette_EUNeHvala_Low\" src=\"http:\/\/www.artoronto.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/11\/Paquette_EUNeHvala_Low1.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"303\" height=\"378\" \/><\/a>Pascal Paquette<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">Grey Area is a collection of post-war documentary photography and painting that examines a less celebrated part of Europe, the Western Balkans, with its intermediate position, its historical and political complexities, and its perpetual status of limbo \u2013 a past unsympathetic to easy analysis or clear verdicts and a future wavering uncertainly between EU membership and minor nation-statehood.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">Grey Area is an exhibition about the collective post-war experiences, symbols and culture in the Western Balkans.\u00a0 The show is an offshoot of and footnote to the artists&#8217; archive project, The Culture Lobby, which took place in the Western Balkans 2008-2010.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p><strong>November 30 \u2013 December 11, 2011<\/strong><br \/>\nOpening: Friday, December 2, 7 pm<\/p>\n<p><strong>GALLERY 1313<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>exhibition about the collective post-war experiences, symbols and culture in the Western Balkans. <\/p>\n<p class=\"more-link-p\"><a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/artoronto.ca\/?p=5835\">Read more &rarr;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":5857,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[25],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5835","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-listings_archive"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/artoronto.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5835","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/artoronto.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/artoronto.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/artoronto.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/artoronto.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=5835"}],"version-history":[{"count":15,"href":"https:\/\/artoronto.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5835\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6408,"href":"https:\/\/artoronto.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5835\/revisions\/6408"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/artoronto.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/5857"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/artoronto.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=5835"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/artoronto.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=5835"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/artoronto.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=5835"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}