2000, 2002 - 2026
Installation
newspaper, video, audio; Oakville Galleries, Oakville, Ontario, 2002 and Remai Modern, Saskatoon, 2026.
This site-specific installation was part of a solo exhibition at the Oakville Galleries. Everyday, in the year 2000, I purchased a newspaper and rolled up the front section into granny knots (usually made and used to start a fire). The entire year’s worth of newspaper was displayed on the floor and a video documenting the act was shown over the fireplace. Periodically the sound of a flashover fire filled the room.
oakvillegalleries.com
This installation was most recently shown at the Remai Modern in Saskaton as part of Material.After.Life curated by Michelle Jacques.
Material.After.Life. examines the many ways artists animate found materials, revealing how the discarded can take on new lives, meanings, and forms. The exhibition brings together works that transform remnants of the everyday into objects that speak to memory, imagination, and renewal, alongside pieces that playfully reconfigure cast-off elements into lively, unexpected, or anthropomorphic creations. Through gestures that range from the poetic to the humorous and from the conceptual to the contemplative, the artists highlight the potential for materials to carry histories, spark associations, and suggest states of becoming. Material. After. Life. invites viewers to consider how what we leave behind—whether objects, ideas, or traces—can be reassembled into something resonant, vital, and newly alive.
Participating artists are: Sonny Assu, Douglas Bentham, Wally Dion, John Latham, Joanne Lyons, Gwen MacGregor, Leanne Read, Kara Uzelman, Jan Wade.
https://remaimodern.org/events-gatherings/opening-celebration-material-after-life/
newspaper, video, audio; Oakville Galleries, Oakville, Ontario, 2002 and Remai Modern, Saskatoon, 2026.
This site-specific installation was part of a solo exhibition at the Oakville Galleries. Everyday, in the year 2000, I purchased a newspaper and rolled up the front section into granny knots (usually made and used to start a fire). The entire year’s worth of newspaper was displayed on the floor and a video documenting the act was shown over the fireplace. Periodically the sound of a flashover fire filled the room.
oakvillegalleries.com
This installation was most recently shown at the Remai Modern in Saskaton as part of Material.After.Life curated by Michelle Jacques.
Material.After.Life. examines the many ways artists animate found materials, revealing how the discarded can take on new lives, meanings, and forms. The exhibition brings together works that transform remnants of the everyday into objects that speak to memory, imagination, and renewal, alongside pieces that playfully reconfigure cast-off elements into lively, unexpected, or anthropomorphic creations. Through gestures that range from the poetic to the humorous and from the conceptual to the contemplative, the artists highlight the potential for materials to carry histories, spark associations, and suggest states of becoming. Material. After. Life. invites viewers to consider how what we leave behind—whether objects, ideas, or traces—can be reassembled into something resonant, vital, and newly alive.
Participating artists are: Sonny Assu, Douglas Bentham, Wally Dion, John Latham, Joanne Lyons, Gwen MacGregor, Leanne Read, Kara Uzelman, Jan Wade.
https://remaimodern.org/events-gatherings/opening-celebration-material-after-life/
Shown at the Remai Modern, Saskatoon as part of Material.After.Life curated by Michelle Jacques
More info can be found at https://remaimodern.org/whats-on/exhibitions-all/material-after-life/
First shown at Oakville Galleries in 2002.
