{"id":43914,"date":"2019-10-15T17:45:52","date_gmt":"2019-10-15T21:45:52","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.artoronto.ca\/?p=43914"},"modified":"2019-10-15T17:53:33","modified_gmt":"2019-10-15T21:53:33","slug":"undomesticated-at-koffler-gallery-%ef%bb%bf","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/v2.artoronto.ca\/?p=43914","title":{"rendered":"Undomesticated at Koffler Gallery \ufeff"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

Exhibited at Koffler Gallery in Artscape Youngplace, Undomesticated<\/em> is a collaborative presentation of conceptual multi-cultural artists that investigates \u201cthe psychological, political and emotional layers that shape our sense of home and belonging.\u201d Undomesticated<\/em> explores aspects of domesticity and territorial manifestations of comfort with political, colonial and diasporic influences by breaking down barriers and typological preconceptions of domestic objects. Undomesticated<\/em> creates a welcoming tension throughout the gallery and invites the viewer to reconsider how we transform our domestic ecosystem for comfort and aestheticism.  
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Yannick Pouliot\u2019s Se suffir \u00e0 soi-m\u00eame<\/em> embodies the paradigm of a purely aesthetic object with the absence of function; a commentary on expensive objects entirely devoted to visual pleasure. It is contrary to our own interactions with furniture in our domestic spaces, which creates a sense of the unsettled and the uncanny. Another visceral piece, created by the indigenous artist Mary Anne Barkhouse, <\/strong>engages with the legacy of colonialism in Canada. She brings nature into the gallery by piercing through the ceiling and reclaiming a place within the constructed space of the Koffler Gallery. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

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(L-R): Lucy Howe, Wardrobe<\/em>, 2010; Mary Anne Barkhouse, Michoac\u00e1n (noticias en el future)<\/em>, 2013, wood, Japanese paper, LEDs and Yannick Pouliot, Se suffir \u00e0 soi-m\u00eame<\/em>, 2001, mixed media. Courtesy of Alain Tremblay. Wall: Nicolas Fleming, Drywall from Koffler Gallery<\/em>, 2019, drywall, latex paint, plaster, varnish<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Throughout the gallery, contributing artist and art director Nicolas Fleming has created an immersive architectural framework made of recycled construction and building materials and exhibit\u2019s artwork created by this display. Repurposed from various installations including Koffler Gallery, Bunker 2, Division Gallery, Evans Contemporary and the Gardiner Museum (from Yoko Ono\u2019s previous show) Fleming\u2019s use of recycled materials \u201ctakes on a more aesthetic presentation than their intended purpose in construction,\u201d returning us to the memory of past exhibitions as well as the materials that framed them. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Lucy Howe, Untitled (Chair)<\/em>, 2009 (middle) and Nicolas Fleming. Repurposed drywall (right)<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Shaheer Zazai, Untitled Carpet 2. <\/em>Digital archival prints on watercolour paper, produced in Microsoft Word. Courtesy of Patel Gallery and Koffler Gallery. The product of highlighted characters on Microsoft Word documents, Shaheer Zazai\u2019s produces these digital prints using a knot per square inch technique similar to those employed by Afghan weavers in the design and manufacture of carpets. Each digital carpet is an improvised, organic process, and is comprised of several Word document pages. Shaheer describes his process of working on one page at a time as setting the tone, palette and design for the entire carpet: \u201cOnce I\u2019ve placed a shape it tells me what\u2019s going to happen to the rest of the document, and how much room I am left with.\u201d The finished product is a realistic mimetic representation of a textile. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Shaheer Zazai, Untitled Carpet 2, <\/em>digital archival prints on watercolour paper, produced in Microsoft World in front of Nicolas Fleming, repurposed drywall.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Hannah Claus, Interlacings<\/em>, 2015, looped projected animation, pine needles, 3:36 min. Animation technician: Scott Benesiinaabandan. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Undomesticated<\/em> transforms everyday domestic\nobjects \u201cstripped of their familiarity to access deeper levels of relationship\nto our surroundings.\u201d The exhibit seeks to address the influences that shape\nour domestic environment and control \u201cwhat we perceive to be \u2018wild\u2019 in search\nof economic and psychological benefits.\u201d <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Keren Sedmina<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Images are courtesy of Artscape Youngplace and Koffler Gallery, and supported by Partners in Art.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Featured image: Yannick Pouliot, R\u00e9gence monomaniaque, 2007<\/p>\n\n\n\n

*Exhibition information: Undomesticated, <\/em>September 18 \u2013 November 17, 2019, Artscape Youngplace, 180 Shaw Street, Toronto. Gallery hours: Sun \u2013 Sat 8 am \u2013 9 pm.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Featuring artists: Mary Anne Barkhouse, Gwena\u00ebl B\u00e9langer, Katherine Boyer, Sandra Brewster, Hannah Claus, Erika DeFreitas, Julie Favreau, Nicolas Fleming, Iris H\u00e4ussler, Lucy Howe, Gunilla Josephson, Lewis Kaye, Val\u00e9rie Kolakis, Carmela Laganse, Heather Nicol, Dainesha Nugent-Palache, Gord Peteran, Birthe Piontek, Yannick Pouliot, Adrienne Spier, Karen Tam, Kevin Yates, Shaheer Zazai, & Shellie Zhang.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

by Keren Sedmina<\/strong><\/p>\n

Undomesticated<\/em> transforms everyday domestic objects \u201cstripped of their familiarity to access deeper levels of relationship to our surroundings.\u201d<\/p>\n

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