Greater Toronto Art 2021: Azza El Siddique
00_home 01_artists 02_gta360 03_publication 04_vidoes 05_gallery 06_credits 00_home 01_artists 02_gta360 03_publication 04_vidoes 05_gallery 06_credits For GTA21, Azza El Siddique shares the third iteration of her series of works titled Begin in Smoke, End in Ashes. The project began following her research around the architecture of spaces of transformation, like burial chambers and temples. Lately, El […]
Greater Toronto Art 2021: Tom Chung
00_home 01_artists 02_gta360 03_publication 04_vidoes 05_gallery 06_credits 00_home 01_artists 02_gta360 03_publication 04_vidoes 05_gallery 06_credits Chung’s 50 Shelves (Study for MOCA) is a conceptual structure that embraces simple lines, modularity, local manufacturing and shared economies. Fifty identical aluminium units comprise the entirety of the Museum’s retail space. Together, the units form a perfect circle, but break […]
Greater Toronto Art 2021: Common Accounts
00_home 01_artists 02_gta360 03_publication 04_vidoes 05_gallery 06_credits 00_home 01_artists 02_gta360 03_publication 04_vidoes 05_gallery 06_credits Parade of All the Feels takes the form of an architectural model of a parade float. Parades have been a motif in the duo’s work as they observe cities through massive spectacles and public situations. Their model is an architectural expression […]
Greater Toronto Art 2021: Tony Romano
00_home 01_artists 02_gta360 03_publication 04_videos 05_gallery 06_credits 00_home 01_artists 02_gta360 03_publication 04_videos 05_gallery 06_credits The selection of works shown in GTA21 focus on Romano’s return to traditional wood carving during the pandemic lockdown. Working on found furniture, antique pieces and other materials salvaged on his daily commutes, Romano was intrigued by the emotional lives of […]
Greater Toronto Art 2021: Ghazaleh Avarzamani
00_home 01_artists 02_gta360 03_publication 04_vidoes 05_gallery 06_credits 00_home 01_artists 02_gta360 03_publication 04_vidoes 05_gallery 06_credits Mashrabiya invites us to question the public accessibility of museums like MOCA through modes of open and obscured visibility. Offering a play on Islamic window screens, which permit views from inside out but not from outside in, this piece stands as […]
Greater Toronto Art 2021: Walter Scott
00_home 01_artists 02_gta360 03_publication 04_videos 05_gallery 06_credits 00_home 01_artists 02_gta360 03_publication 04_videos 05_gallery 06_credits Central to his practice is an interest in identity: namely, how one sees oneself in the world and the angst that often surfaces in the process of self-presentation. Across all his chosen mediums, Scott’s protagonists are caught in vulnerable moments. They […]
Greater Toronto Art 2021: Jagdeep Raina
00_home 01_artists 02_gta360 03_publication 04_vidoes 05_gallery 06_credits 00_home 01_artists 02_gta360 03_publication 04_vidoes 05_gallery 06_credits Punjab, 1946: workers staged an agrarian revolt, now known as the Harsha Chhina Mogha Morcha. The revolt occurred in response to the British Government’s decision to decrease the supply of irrigation water to farmers by remodelling the moghas (canal outlets). The […]
Greater Toronto Art 2021: Jennifer Rose Sciarrino
00_home 01_artists 02_gta360 03_publication 04_vidoes 05_gallery 06_credits 00_home 01_artists 02_gta360 03_publication 04_vidoes 05_gallery 06_credits In this new body of work, Sciarrino sourced rocks from Ontario. Ranging in geologic age, these stones hold unfathomable memory. Yet Sciarrino focuses on the stones’ materiality and latent potential that she finds within them at this particular moment in time. […]
Greater Toronto Art 2021: Jesse Chun
00_home 01_artists 02_gta360 03_publication 04_vidoes 05_gallery 06_credits 00_home 01_artists 02_gta360 03_publication 04_vidoes 05_gallery 06_credits Developed for this exhibition, Chun’s new mirrored projections disrupt colonial narratives, particularly so-called official texts that articulate an ambition to conquer celestial bodies. O (for various skies) (2021) draws from bureaucratic documents surrounding outer space and the United States government’s colonial […]
Greater Toronto Art 2021: Julia Dault
00_home 01_artists 02_gta360 03_publication 04_vidoes 05_gallery 06_credits 00_home 01_artists 02_gta360 03_publication 04_vidoes 05_gallery 06_credits Dault often fuses industrial and handmade practices, creating a sense of tension in production: using her body to bend stiff building materials, mechanically repeating her hand gestures, and wielding combs and squeegees instead of paintbrushes. In some cases, Dault treats materials—like […]