Ariana Pickard: Collaboration of One

March 22 - April 1, 2018

Opening Reception: March 22, 2018 / 7-9pm

130 Foxley Place, Toronto, ON

Collaboration of One is a group of works dealing with the isolation that accompanies interaction. Each piece examines and decustructs complex social happenings into their simplest form, thus articulating the bones of our language structure.

Communication and the lack of it is perhaps the most overarching theme in the flaws of man, because of its ability to simultaneously create bridges and barriers using subtle inflections that are universal yet elusive. These inflections and connotations are the basis of the work, investigating another language we all speak but are often unaware of. By stripping interaction down to its core, it can be found that any and all facets of communication are omnipresent across everyone and everything.

Ariana Pickard is an artist currently practising in Toronto, ON. She is currently studying Contemporary Art at Etobicoke School of the Arts.

The gallery is open from 12-5pm, Saturdays and Sundays.

Unfortunately, the space is not wheelchair accessible.

We would like to acknowledge that the land on which we are situated is the traditional territory of the Haudenosaunee, Wendat, Anishinabek Nation, Métis Nation, and most recently, the territory of the Mississaugas of the New Credit First Nation.

The territory was the subject of the Dish With One Spoon Wampum Belt Covenant, an agreement between the Iroquois Confederacy and the Ojibwe and allied nations to peaceably share and care for the resources around the Great Lakes. This territory is also covered by the Upper Canada Treaties. Today, the meeting place of Toronto (from the Haudenosaunee word Tkaronto) is still the home to many Indigenous people from across Turtle Island and we are grateful to have the opportunity to work in the community, on this territory.