{"id":28253,"date":"2015-04-29T11:01:09","date_gmt":"2015-04-29T15:01:09","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.artoronto.ca\/?p=28253"},"modified":"2015-05-09T14:39:58","modified_gmt":"2015-05-09T18:39:58","slug":"a-dialogue-with-frank-rodick","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/v2.artoronto.ca\/?p=28253","title":{"rendered":"a dialogue with Frank Rodick"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"\"<\/strong><\/a>Frank Rodick, Parade in Petticoat Lane (my mother holds her basket), 2014, archival pigment print, 100 x 152 cm. Courtesy of the artist and Articsok Gallery<\/p>\n

Thursday, May 7, 2015 \/ 7 p.m.<\/strong>
\nArticsok Gallery<\/strong>
\n1697 St.Clair West<\/p>\n

The artist talk is\u00a0accompanying Frank Rodick solo show, titled,\u00a0<\/em><\/strong>Everything Will Be Forgotten<\/em> at Articsok Gallery. The exhibition is\u00a0part of Toronto\u2019s Scotiabank\u00a0CONTACT Photography Festival 2015 and is on display April 30 – May 31, 2015.<\/p>\n

On sons and mothers, love, hate, and death<\/em><\/strong>\u2026<\/em><\/strong> <\/em><\/strong>and why we make pictures even though Everything Will Be Forgotten: a dialogue with Frank Rodick<\/em><\/strong><\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n

“For this work, I started at the end. That is, on June 15th 2010, the day Frances Rodick, my mother, died.” …<\/p>\n

“People make photographs, they make art, for all kinds of reasons. They do it to remember. They do it to forget. They do it because they believe in an ideal. They do it because they want to tell someone how the world is changing.<\/p>\n

As for me, I do it mainly because I find our internal, subjective world\u2014which exists in our minds and bodies\u2014the most compelling thing there is. It\u2019s a world that\u2019s somehow both close and far, where the darkest corners are mostly forbidden. It\u2019s inside us but it resists discovery. That makes the whole experience of opening up this world perilous but also powerful, intoxicating. And when everything is taken away from us, up to that very last point this world is what we\u2019re left with. Of course, the internal world I have the most access to is my own, so that\u2019s where I dredge when I\u2019m making pictures.” …<\/p>\n

“I sometimes call all these images \u201challucinatory memoirs.\u201d I don\u2019t know how accurate they are as a record of the past. But what I can say is that they\u2019re a candid reconstruction of my present memories and feelings of that past\u2014hazy and seeping as they may be. And ultimately that\u2019s all I have.” –\u00a0Frank Rodick<\/p>\n

For more information please contact:\u00a0info@articsokgallery.com<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Thursday, May 7, 2015 \/ 7 p.m.<\/p>\n

Artics\u00f3k Gallery<\/strong><\/p>\n

The artist talk is accompanying Frank Rodick’s solo show, titled, Everything Will Be Forgotten<\/em><\/p>\n

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