Critical Distance PROGRAMMING PUBLIC ART: Billboard on Shaw by Sarah Nasby

In partnership with Artscape Youngplace, Critical Distance is pleased to present the Fall 2017 Billboard on Shaw, featuring an image by Sarah Nasby, curated by Lauren Fournier.

Fermentation requires vessels to hold and contain its transformative processes. In her Living Things series, Toronto-based artist Sarah Nasby takes vessels designed by women throughout history and re-stages them in light of fermentation as both a practice and a metaphor. Here, a vessel designed by Hungarian-born American designer Eva Zeisel is filled with kombucha, a fermented tea. Nasby graphically interprets the vitality of the kombucha tonic and the undulating design of Zeisel’s pot with her own squiggle pattern, creating a work that is both elegant and excessive in its form. The objects become living things in more than one sense: vessels that we live with, and vessels containing living, bubbling matter.

Living Things (Eva Zeisel vessel, kombucha, squiggle pattern) is on view at 180 Shaw Street, outside Artscape Youngplace, through September  to November 2017.

This project is presented in conjunction with Fermenting Feminism, Critical Distance’s Fall exhibition curated by Lauren Fournier and featuring Sharlene Bamboat, Hazel Meyer, Leila Nadir and Cary Peppermint, Sarah Nasby, Kayla Polan, Walter Scott, and Agustine Zegers. On view Friday–Sunday 12–5 pm and by appointment in Suite 302 at Artscape Youngplace from September 14–November 26, 2017.

Please join us to celebrate the new billboard on Thursday, September 14th from 6–9 pm
A reception for artist will take place in our third floor gallery at Youngplace and will coincide with the opening of Fermenting Feminism. Refreshments will be served and all are welcome.

Critical Distance Centre for Curators (CDCC)
Suite 302, Artscape Youngplace, 180 Shaw Street, Toronto, ON M6J 2W5
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Sarah Nasby is grateful for the support of the Toronto Arts Council for her work in this exhibition. Critical Distance thanks Artscape Youngplace for their support of the billboard.

Image: Sarah Nasby, Living Things (Eva Zeisel vessel, kombucha, squiggle pattern), 2017.  8 x 8 foot billboard at 180 Shaw Street in Toronto’s West Queen West neighbourhood. Photo by Toni Hafkenscheid.

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