
PUBLIC ART: Billboard on Shaw by Morgan Melenka and Megan Gnanasihamany
October 6, 2022 - November 26, 2022Billboard on Shaw presented by Critical Distance, featuring Burtynsky Suite by Morgan Melenka and Megan Gnanasihamany, 2022.
Burtynsky Suite is composed of four reproductions of Carrara Marble Quarries, Cava di Calagrande #2 by the Canadian photographer Edward Burtynsky. The reproductions range in degrees of abstraction, but each, unlike the seemingly cool distance of the original photograph, contain the rough edges of the process of translation and the clear marks of a subjective artistic rendering.
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PUBLIC ART: Billboard on Shaw by Adrià Julià
August 21, 2022 - September 17, 2022Billboard on Shaw presented by Critical Distance, featuring A Very White Flower, by Adrià Julià, 2022.
A Very White Flower references Julià’s ongoing interest in the history of production, consumption and expansion of popcorn in modern colonial history. The image of a single kernel of popcorn functions as a prompt to consider Julià’s reflections on the historical and socioeconomic intricacies of the global corn industry and its relationship to Mexican culture and the popularization of popcorn in the United States after the Great Depression, especially in regards to popcorn’s connection to cinema.
A Very White Flower is presented in the context of Place Settings (curated by Noa Bronstein), a large-scale, durational project that considers how food functions to connect and disrupt.
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PUBLIC ART: Billboard on Shaw by Tanya Lukin Linklater
September 23, 2021 - November 21, 2021
PUBLIC ART: Billboard on Shaw by Karen Tam
June 18, 2021 - August 15, 2021