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Curatorial Statement for Decisive Moments, Uncertain Times
by Kim SimonFrom the exhibition Decisive Moments, Uncertain Times, Adam Broomberg and Oliver Chanarin, Paolo Canevari, Ken Gonzales-Day, Jannicke Laker, John Moore (October 20 – November 19, 2011)
Decisive Moments, Uncertain Times is a proposal within an ongoing curatorial dialogue between myself, as curator of Gallery TPW, and Jean-Paul Kelly, as programmer of Trinity Square Video.
Another World is Plausible: Ben Rivers’ Slow Action
by Michael SicinskiFrom the exhibition Ben Rivers: Slow Action, curated by Andréa Picard (September 8 to October 1, 2011)
How can we begin to consider a possible connection between landscape and utopia? And what role, if any, can cinema play in forging this relationship?…
The Normal Condition of Any Communication
by cheyanne turionsFrom the exhibition The Normal Condition of Any Communication by cheyanne turions (June 23 to July 30, 2011)
The Normal Condition of Any Communication takes its title from the words of contemporary French philosopher Jacques Rancière, who states that “Distance is not an evil to be abolished, but the normal condition of any communication”…
Paths That Cross Cross Again: A conversation with Eric Gottesman
by Kim Simon & Eric GottesmanFrom the exhibition Paths That Cross Cross Again by Eric Gottesman (May 12 to June 11, 2011)
Eric Gottesman is an American artist and community arts practitioner working primarily in photography and video. For over a decade he has worked with Sudden Flowers, a children’s art collective the he co-founded in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia…
Lindsay Seers’ Extramission 6 (Black Maria)
by Michael NewmanFrom the exhibition Extramission 6 by Lindsay Seers (April 2 to April 30, 2011)
On first encounter, the visitor comes upon what looks like a large black, irregularly-shaped building within the gallery. Upon entering, he or she finds a place to sit, and watches a projected video…
Eyes Like Suns: Davida Nemeroff’s California
by Mieke MarpleFrom the exhibition California by Davida Nemeroff (February 5 to March 5, 2011)
It was clear to the ancient Greeks that rays of light traveled in straight lines, due in large part to Euclid’s writings on light. However, rather than travelling from the light source to the eye, as is understood today, the Greeks believed…
