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Oct 21 to Dec 9, 2006 Home Theatre Karin Bubas Lynda Gammon Arni Haraldsson Oliver Michaels Carol Sawyer |
Opening Saturday October 21, 2006 |
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Home Theatre is a group exhibition presenting five very different, but related views of contemporary domestic space. Karin Bubas sees residential spaces as indexing the residue of human passing, especially the physical traces of domestic routines. Lynda Gammon conflates the home, the studio and Merzbau effects in her architectural re-renderings of her Rotterdam studio. Arni Haraldsson's images of the B.C. Binning House in West Vancouver reveal a modernist plan to convert the home into a gallery/museum. Oliver Michaels treats domestic architecture as a variegated landscape through which we pass as explorers. Carol Sawyer's Flux photographs record the traces left by past inhabitants on empty Strathcona houses undergoing renovation. Each artist shows us domestic space as a stage, a place to be choreographed, to be acted in and upon. In each of these images there is a sense of the uncanny, a strangeness raising many questions about, as well as celebrating, the way we live now. Images clockwise from top left: Karin Bubas, Blue Towel on Radiator from Ivy House series, 2003, courtesy of Monte Clark Gallery; Lynda Gammon, 1 of 9 from Narrow Escapes From Endless Things Falling, 2006; Carol Sawyer, yellow kitchen from Flux, 2002/2005; Oliver Michaels, still from Train, 2003, courtesy of Shoshana Wayne Gallery, Santa Monica, CA; Arni Haraldsson, Picture Gallery, B.C. Binning House (1940), West Vancouver, Bert Binning, architect, 1994, courtesy of Catriona Jeffries Gallery. |
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