XPACE RESIDENCY
XPACE Cultural Centre - 58 Ossington Avenue, Toronto
July 27th - August 4th, 2012
Gallery Hours: Tuesday - Saturday 12 - 6pm
Opening Reception July 27th, 2012 7 - 11pm
Artists in Residence: Krystina Plante, Mason Mummery, Lee Aaron Wiesblatt
New Body of Work: Missing Links, Krystina Plante
Drawing from personal experience and
emotional tension, I look to find narratives within mundane objects or
the events of everyday life. My most recent work has centered on the
surrounding notions of collecting, the mundane, and the book as an art
form. This residency has created an opportunity to divert from these
themes and instead explore a topic which has been in suspension for some
time. As much of my family has been adopted or displaced, I am left
with a very small family core, which then dissipates into a vast area of
unknowns, like dead nerve endings. It is this tremendous sense of
anonymity and these evidently lost connections which has me longing for
answers, resolution, and acceptance. It is vital to my artistic practice
to remain emotionally vulnerable, as I feel it is crucial to express
humanity through art.
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