Concordia University's FOFA Gallery presents
Rentrée Janvier
Monday, January 6 to Friday, February 14, 2014
Vernissage
Thursday, January 9, 2014
They Own the Night / They Own the Day
Eva Brandl
Main Gallery
She said I have a French face
Erika Adams
York Corridor Vitrines
Untitled (Speculative Proposition)
Csenge Kolozsvári
Black Box
Eva Brandl, Buteo Buteo #2, digital print, 94" x 50", 2013.
They Own the Night / They Own the Day
Eva Brandl | Main Gallery
Eva Brandl's installation explores a mythic and multisensory dimension of space at the confluence of the natural world and the built environment. This exhibition brings together two connected bodies of work in the form of large photographs depicting the posture of taxidermy birds paired with sculptural elements. In both series, oversized images emphasize the paused gaze of the animals, vigilantly attentive and watchful of their prey. The ensemble generates a singular climate of tension as the images become more than what they represent. By straddling realism, artifice and the fantastic, they conjure up a surreal and uncanny atmosphere heightened by the reciprocity of territorial calls. The blurred reflections framed by metallic disks as well as the sound seemingly emanating from large megaphones forge sensory connections with a parallel world, enhancing the poetic charge and evocative power of the ensemble. In this work lies a genuine interest in the phenomenon of mental projection; to conjure up a mythic presence in a distant landscape as a psychic mechanism that constructs its subject in time and space. The work is not distinctively about nature but rather an idea of nature conveyed in a deliberate setting as a reflection on the perception of natural subjects in a forged context.
She said I have a French face
Erika Adams | York Corridor Vitrines
In She said I have a French face, Erika Adams's text drawings and large-scale paper sculpture/drawings investigate the interstitial space between what we say (or make) and what we mean. In hole-punched text pieces, the awkwardness of assumed intersubjectivity is made plain. Inspired by interactions with students, friends and strangers in Montreal, Adams's texts explore meanings behind the earnest, clumsy and odd things people say to each other. Especially considering the complications of translating between English and French, the shift from saying words to understanding meaning can seem like a small miracle. Adams's paper sculptures/drawings exist in the same framework as language, with meaning and form found as much in the paper as in the intervals between. Attached to the wall in various configurations, single sheets of cut paper are lines and outlines. Like the artist Glenn Goldberg describes his process, these moments are about clarity and imprecision. Meaning is discovered and inferred through our peripheral vision, and it is in those moments when the translation can be conceived.
Untitled (Speculative Proposition)
Csenge Kolozsvári | Black Box
Untitled (Speculative Proposition) is a new, sculptural video installation inspired by, and unfolding as a parallel proposition to, a Iive performance and sound installation called NONLINEAR, NON ARTICULATED, where Csenge Kolozsvari balances on a tightrope. In this previous work, the resonance in the tight rope created by the balancing movement is recorded through contact microphones attached to the rope, is processed and accumulated, and projected back to the space live. This creates a continuous co-composition of all factors: the moving performer and spectator, the resonating sounds, and the increasing intensities created by these activities inhabiting the space in the duration of the performance. As the container of an event, space carries the potential of maintaining experience. But if we are able to think about place not as a fixed point, but as a nodal point of process, as Foucault suggests--a field for alternative decisions/redirection--then we open up the possibility for the space to be in the constant flux of movement and to fulfill different roles in the experience. Within the framework of this project, Kolozsvari takes a physical space of a live performance and looks at it from a new perspective, while exploring the limits of sound, video projection and tactility in delivering and transforming experience.
Additional information
Where:
FOFA Gallery, Faculty of Fine Arts, Concordia University
1515 Ste. Catherine Street W., EV 1-715
Montreal, Quebec (Metro Guy-Concordia)
Gallery Hours:
Monday to Friday from 11 a.m. to 7 p.m.
Information:
FOFA Gallery website or 514-848-2424 ext. 7962
Cost: Free admission. Everyone welcome.