NOTES & TRACES and Parallel Lines
Gallery 1313 Oct. 9-20, 2019
1313 Queen Street West, Toronto
Reception October 10 6:30pm
Gallery Hours: Wednesday to Sunday, 1 – 6 pm
416-536-6778 www.g1313.org
Main Gallery : Colectivo Toronto and Club Cultural Matienzo
presents:
notas y huellas / notes and traces by Leticia Obeid presented by guest curator Laura Preger
parallel lines / lineas paralelas by Rita Camacho Lomeli
Leticia Obeid Lives and works in Buenos Aires, Argentina. She studied arts at the School of Arts at the National University of Córdoba (UNC), and received a scholarship from the Antorchas Foundation. She has been participating in difference arts residencies such as the Atlantic Center for the Arts; Cité Internationale des Arts, Paris, and Casa Vecina, Mexico. Her work has been shown in exhibitions in Argentina and internationally.
Rita Camacho Lomeli is an artist whose performance-based projects centre on ephemeral sculpture, artist's books, video and curatorial projects. Her work explores “the gift” covering a wide range of temporal terrain stretching from the relationship between the accidentally miraculous and the here and now. She received and MFA from OCADU, her projects have been awarded from the Ontario Arts Council and the Toronto Arts Council. She has exhibited her work individually and collectively in Canada and internationally. www.ritacamacholomeli.com
Colectivo Toronto is dedicated to the development and presentation of contemporary art. We work in collaboration with other collectives, artist-run centres, galleries, art organizations and festivals. We are diverse in content, culture and activities.
Club Cultural Matienzo is and artist-run-centre in Buenos Aires, Argentina; a highly creative space always buzzing with local, well-organized activities like concerts, theatre plays, dance performances, art exhibitions, poetry readings, movie screenings and arts courses.
Colectivo Toronto is a member of
Media Arts Network of Ontario / Réseau des arts médiatiques de l’Ontario
We would like to acknowledge funding support from the
Ontario Arts Council, an agency of the Government of Ontario
Media Arts Projects
PROCESS GALLERY : PostScript – Parkdale a multimedia installation by artists Noor Khan and Sean Leon ( this was presented in the Main Gallery as part of Nuit Blanche )
"PostScript” exhibits the geographical intersections of Parkdale and Scarborough. It also alludes to afterthoughts written once a letter—or place making policy, perhaps—has been signed.Policy-making in Toronto has caused Parkdale and Scarborough to suffer. The two regions are often afterthoughts compared to many other areas. Here, two artists will come together to tell a story of these places. Visual artist Noor Khan will juxtapose film footage from Parkdale and Scarborough. This pairing will reveal conditions that continue to create socioeconomic disparities in both neighbourhoods. Recording artist Sean Leon will score the film with sounds from Parkdale and Scarborough residents. The sounds will not be in sync with the imagery, creating dissonance. This audio will highlight different perspectives of life and love in these communities. Large-scale events such as Nuit Blanche are usually complicit in “cleaning up” the streets and displacing people experiencing homelessness. But “PostScript” will be of the communities it depicts. It will reflect real neighbourhood love and will prompt tourists to acknowledge those whose homes they are walking through.
Noor Khan and Sean Leon tell stories about love and life on the margins. Scarborough-based, Saudi Arabia–born, and with roots in South Asia, Khan is an artist, director and producer who shifts strategies to fit her community’s needs. Scarborough-born, Ajax-raised, and now residing in Parkdale, Leon creates sonic stories challenging suburban-life stereotypes
Cell Gallery : GOD FROM MACHINE works by Murat Yukselir
Last year, my wife and I went to Rome, Italy, and visited the many beautiful museums of the Vatican. I was particularly fascinated by the sculptures at the Gregorian Egyptian Museum, in which were depicted standing and kneeling deities that had human bodies with animal heads. Inspired by this ancient civilization's bestiary, I tried to imagine what a 21st-century equivalent might look like.
This sculpture explores the idea of a modern god by combining machine-made and hand-made art. The golden head is 3-D printed plastic, while the rest is made from a malleable concrete called Winterstone.
Traditional notions of God suggest a transcendent being that is omnipotent,
omniscient and immortal. But through our technology, we try to capture and imitate these mythical traits for our mortal selves. The ubiquitous smartphone, for example, is fast becoming an artificial organ. It allows us to expand our memories and knowledge, and to share our thoughts with distant others. Through incremental advances in genetic engineering, biotechnology, and neurotechnology, our smartphones may soon become inseparable parts of our bodies. As we continue to "improve" ourselves, perhaps no original bio-parts will remain, and we will one day be indistinguishable from machine.
Will we still be individual humans, or will our collective self become as omnipotent, omniscient and immortal as a god? Resistance is futile...
Window Box Gallery : The DukkeoBeeKeepers an installation by CarpOs Collective
CarpOs is an art collective initiated in 2017 by Shirls, Julia, and Joyce. Their relationship was born from a shared love for creating art and stories. They aim to create a healthy space for much-needed conversation among their diverse communities and celebrate the beautiful results of being open to differences and allowing these differences to work together.
The DukkeoBeeKeepers
The conversation of sustainability is as prevalent as always, but in the era of hype culture, is this conversation getting lost in the ever-changing- twenty-four-hour news cycle? Are we asking enough questions, or even the right questions? In a world where the system works against the cause and many world leaders turn a blind eye, how do we as individuals do more?
CarpOs Collective’s newest installation juxtaposes the idealized sustainable world against the harsh reality that is our industrialized world. Despite reality’s persistence to crash down on sustainability’s efforts, we are still hopeful. We are hopeful in the collective power of society to see the need for change. Our earth is desperate. We can succumb to the overpowering industries and suffer in a dying world, or we can persevere through the difficulties and change our collective habits. Our lifestyle choices and our consumer habits hold the most effective power against those sitting in their smog filled thrones.
The DukkeoBeeKeepers are those who will not let this conversation get lost in the infinite scrolls and the newest fads. We will continue the difficult conversations, and share knowledge, ideas, and resources. We strive to seek understanding, and lend an ear before lending a hand. We will breach reality with our idealism, and we will win.
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Gallery 1313 Celebrating 22 Years of Exhibiting Contemporary Art and Supporting Emerging Artists
