Scotiabank Contact Photography Festival
May, 2016 / Toronto and GTA
With so much choices, with well over 1500 Canadian and international artists and photographers exhibiting at more than 200 exhibitions, it isn’t easy picking exhibits to see.
by Katie Lawson
The current exhibition at Typology Projects, offers various artistic thoughts on not only the relationship between past and present, but between absence and presence; life and death.
by Katie Lawson
each image demands that the viewer recognize the simplistic beauty which surrounds us in our everyday lives, true or invented.
by Katie Lawson
The particular height of the plinths used to exhibit the work encourages practices of public voyeurism, desire to behold and scrutinize these precious objects
by Katie Lawson
They demonstrate an interest in the cultural texts which surround us, and engage with appropriation and questions of authenticity. In both cases, cultural or textual material has been divorced from its original context and given a new meaning.
by Katie Lawson
As a cross-cultural collaboration, the work benefits from the different contextualization of the event by Pedneault and Garcia Contreras.
