Remains, mixed media on Mylar, 7 x 15ft.
June 22 – July 16, 2011
Opening: June 24, 7-10pm
THE RED HEAD GALLERY
401 Richmond St. W., Suite 115.
Toronto, ON M5V 3A8
T: 416 504-5654.
Email: art@redheadgallery.org.
www.redheadgallery.org.
Hours: Wed – Sa. 12 – 5 pm.
Teri Donovan’s new body of work deals with time and memory and its impact on identity and culture. According to John Lock, there is no identity without memory. It follows therefore, that there is no memory without time.
In this exhibition Teri Donovan focuses on cultural as well as family histories, and incorporates the use of wallpaper as a signifier of temporal context. Parallels are drawn between the repeat patterns of wallpaper and the repetition of personal and cultural histories. These repetitions speak to the long half-life of influence exerted by some histories, alongside the ever increasing speed at which contemporary developments are relegated to the past tense.