Jennifer Marman & Daniel Borins

Wha Happened?

Thursday, January 10 to Saturday, February 9, 2008

Opening reception:
Thursday January 10, 2008, 7:00 – 9:00 pm

Collaborative duo Jennifer Marman and Daniel Borins present Wha Happened?, an exhibition that weaves a chaotic patchwork from signs and symbols of mass media politics, popular culture, and contemporary art and design history. Here Marman and Borins present a disordered world of ideas where no belief system has primacy. The installation combines sculpture conceived from mass media photographic references with interactive electronic art, video and graphic projects. Creating both a scrap book and new lexicon, Marman and Borins unabashedly appropriate and recombine the popular memory of images, taking viewers from the terror fables of Bin Laden and the Munich Olympics, to the dance floor with Michael Jackson, to a contemporary pieta with ET and Yoda.

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Artist Biographies

Toronto based Jennifer Marman and Daniel Borins have had a collaborative sculpture, installation and media art practice since 2000. They have exhibited internationally, including exhibitions at Art Santa Fe, in Sao Paulo , at the University of Toronto, the Toronto International Art Fair and the Toronto Sculpture Garden. Most recently, they presented work in Toronto's 2007 Nuit Blanche and at the National Gallery of Canada. Upcoming projects include a public sculpture commission for Downsview subway station and in the fall of 2008 they will participate in a group exhibition at the National Gallery of Canada and present a solo show at Diaz Contemporary in Toronto.

Jennifer Marman & Daniel Borins , detail of piETa, lambda print, 2007
Jennifer Marman & Daniel Borins, installation view, Wha Happened?, 2007
Jennifer Marman & Daniel Borins, Afghani Carpet, mixed media, 2007
Jennifer Marman & Daniel Borins, still from They Live, Wha Happened?, 2007

Jennifer Marman & Daniel Borins, Crawl Space, mixed media, 2007
Jennifer Marman & Daniel Borins, still from Momento Monkey, Wha Happened?, 2007
Jennifer Marman & Daniel Borins, Death Trap, mixed media, 2007
Jennifer Marman & Daniel Borins, documentation image of Display Case, mixed media, 2007

Jennifer Marman & Daniel Borins, documentation image of Double Negative, mixed media, 2007
Jennifer Marman & Daniel Borins, Double Negative, mixed media, 2007
Jennifer Marman & Daniel Borins, Double Negative, mixed media, 2007
Jennifer Marman & Daniel Borins, documentation image of Double Negative, mixed media, 2007

Jennifer Marman & Daniel Borins, detail of Double Negative, mixed media, 2007
Jennifer Marman & Daniel Borins, documentation image of Fake Passports, 2007
Jennifer Marman & Daniel Borins, documentation image of Fake Passports, 2007
Jennifer Marman & Daniel Borins, detail of glyphs, 2007

Jennifer Marman & Daniel Borins, detail of Hairy Rockers and Hairy Minimalists, diptych, lambda print, 2007
Jennifer Marman & Daniel Borins, detail of Hairy Rockers and Hairy Minimalists, diptych, lambda print, 2007
Jennifer Marman & Daniel Borins, detail of Hairy Rockers and Hairy Minimalists, diptych, lambda print, 2007
Jennifer Marman & Daniel Borins, Untitled, mixed media, 2007

Jennifer Marman & Daniel Borins, Jihad Cave, mixed media, 2007
Jennifer Marman & Daniel Borins, Zabriskie, mixed media, 2007
Jennifer Marman & Daniel Borins, Wha Happened?, 2007
Jennifer Marman & Daniel Borins, Untitled, mixed media, 2007

Jennifer Marman & Daniel Borins, Michael Jackson Bad, found object, 2008
Jennifer Marman & Daniel Borins, Michael Jackson Dance Floor, mixed media, 2007
Jennifer Marman & Daniel Borins, Michael Jackson Dance Floor, mixed media, 2007
Jennifer Marman & Daniel Borins, Michael Jackson Dance Floor, mixed media, 2007