Making Spaces
01.10.2020 - 01.12.2020
Group Exhibition
Sur Gallery - Toronto, Canada
What defines or makes a space? With no fixed answer to this question, the exhibition Making Spaces navigates concepts of space, place and site through personal-collective experiences, in order to reflect on how we make spaces and the narratives that emerge. The exhibition features textile, mixed media and architectural installations by emerging artists Ana Luisa Bernárdez Notz, denirée isabel, Michelle Peraza, Camila Salcedo and Aline Setton. The imagery used by these artist’s references specific landscapes and histories, while exploring a sense of home and belonging. Offering moments of action and contemplation, the works include personal stories of migration, revealing the effects of colonial histories in the Americas. Within the exhibition, portraiture acts as a channel to examine identity through familial lineage, while the usage of facial photo filters broadens the notion by linking them to “identification” preferences.
Toronto:BOOM
Acrylic painting on wall and on plexiglass, ink, and graphite on mylar and construction debris.
Through this installation Setton transforms space into a place, moving from the abstract to the embodied experience of inhabiting a specific place. Employing architectural components of Toronto’s local cityscape, the mural and the sculpture break the flat representation of architectural urban imagery, layering fragment of building sand switching the perspective of windows, walls and facades. As a newcomer, Setton looks at the city with fresh eyes while learning and researching about the Canada’s problematic history on this land, analyzing the implicit settler colonialism dynamic that took and takes place in the management of city planning. Focusing on the area where Sur Gallery is located (Tkaronto/Toronto’s Harbourfront), she composed a site-specific installation that captures the fractures between nature, land, and city development. This work also explores the relationships people develop with a place when moving within its spaces and histories along time.
