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Ada Slaight Gallery, OCAD University, 2024
Bianca Nam, Jordyn Hendricks, and Hayeon Song enter a visual conversation around nature, its synthetic attachments, and durations of the two. Artists practicing within a city encounter a difficult tension between these perceptions. How much time is spent in the studio? How much is spent outdoors? How long does the artist spend engaging with a specific object or place? The duality of the artist's relation to nature within an urban environment introduces a phenomenology coinciding with conflicting emotions and identities. Each Artist exudes a heartfelt attempt to rationalize their position among each others works.
Hayeon, with her acute focus on the dualities of matter, uses visual cues such as parallel lines to interpret ordered senses of chaos. Bianca, who grapples with the synthetic nature of closed environments, reveals a sequence-based fabric of materials which speak to one's inherent identities in relation to others. Jordyn looks toward intentional time spent within nature, and reasons with observed sounds, situating their interpretations through vivid release of pigment on wood.
Curated by Timo Cheah, Will Faris, Elijah Harrison, Jacob Zhang and Tatyana Vulin
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