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 […]
Greater Toronto Art 2021: Kara Springer
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 Recently, Springer has turned her focus towards macro photography to look closely at broken, mundane or overlooked industrial materials. During a residency in Houston, Texas—one of the so-called energy capitals of the world—Springer captured the passage of daylight across plates of […]
Greater Toronto Art 2021
00_home 01_artists 02_gta360 03_publication 04_videos 05_credits 00_home 01_artists 02_gta360 03_publication 04_videos 05_documentation 06_credits Greater Toronto Art 2021 September 29, 2021 — January 30, 2022 Greater Toronto Art 2021 (GTA21), brings together twenty-one of the most energizing artists and art collectives working in Toronto or intensely connected to the city. The title we’ve adopted, which plays on […]