Artworks

Artworks

Below are artworks in progress, being created during the Luminous Bodies residency.

Stay tuned … more artists’ works to come … !

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Alize Zorlutuna is creating collaged and performative videos that explore multi-faceted sexual expressions within cultural and natural contexts.

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Natalie Boterman is seen here with her cut-out constellations of stars ~ to be incorporated into a performative video of collaged lights.

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Dahye Kim is stitching layers of hair to be superimposed into a video of fluidity and sensuality.

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Melissa General is caring for lengths of vivid red fabric for a performative video about an indigenous spiritual path.

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This is Sally Raab performing an exploratory artwork about what lies beneath our flesh.

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Alisdair MacRae is brining to life social manifestations through new applications of historical photographic processes.

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Dominique Rey is transforming images from ritualized performances into fantastic collages called “Strangers to Ourselves.”

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Adam Filek is pushing his body and psyche along Toronto Island’s kilometres of coastline to collect its natural relics.

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Shelby Lisk is exploring and expanding on indigenous and colonial meanings behind braided hair.

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Elaine Stewart is transferring photos of a hospital in demolition onto silk sheets.

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Andrew Weir is working on a series of portraits of strangers he invited to photograph on Toronto Island.

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Lynn Schirmer is drawing monumental-sized depictions of superimposed bodies.

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Stefani Celani is filling and dragging nylon stockings with sand to grapple with concepts of anxiety around the aging body.

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Inside the Louvres Museum in Paris, Alannah Clamp is modelling infamous sculptural poses.

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Alisdair MacRae is photographing and developing images of strangers inside his Afghan camera box.

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Lauren Sudbrink is printing large analogue photos made from “film negatives” cast from her body.

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