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Close Readings
Close ReadingsJanuary 14 - February 25, 2017
Close Readings brings together practices that are by turns invested in uncovering the frailty of language, prodding at cultural anxieties and individual pleasures, excavating and refusing legacies, asking for tenderness, applying pressure, attending to the complications and vulnerabilities of being together while we are implicated—politically, socially, personally—by artworks and their demands on us.
Sharon Lockhart
RudzienkoSeptember 8 – October 29, 2016
The Toronto International Film Festival and Gallery TPW are pleased to co-present Rudzienko, a new film installation by American artist Sharon Lockhart. Through her precise films and photographic works, Lockhart explores the relationship between still and moving images and the productive space between the choreographed and natural gesture.
Working Conditions
Carole Condé and Karl Beveridge, Kajsa Dahlberg, Duane Linklater → John Hampton, Juan Ortiz-Apuy, Joshua Schwebel. Curated by Sam Cotter.June 23 - August 6, 2016
Acknowledging that the studio exists at the intersection of many ecologies, the artists in Working Conditions place themselves in relation to factors beyond their place of production, looking at the power dynamics, blind spots and measures of success contained in the economies and ecosystems surrounding them.
Oliver Husain
Isla Santa Maria 3DApril 14 - June 4, 2016
The films of Oliver Husain are known for their play with cinematic languages and visual codes. From the theatrical to dance to puppetry and animation, with unique costume and set sensibilities, Husain employs his seductive tactics in ways that both absorb us and shock us into an awareness of our role as spectators within the filmic apparatus.
Alison S.M. Kobayashi
Say Something Bunny!February 13 – March 26, 2016
Alison S.M. Kobayashi is an identity contortionist. In her work, Kobayashi performs a variety of characters that are both studiously and playfully rendered. These personas are inspired by Kobayashi’s extensive collection of lost, discarded and donated objects; ranging from answering machine tapes purchased at a secondhand shop to a love letter left on a sidewalk.
