Gallery 44 Database
of Contemporary Canadian Photography

Exhibitions: Constellations

Exhibition Name: Constellations
From: Jan 5, 2008
To: Feb 2, 2008
Gallery Space: Main Gallery
Curated By: Sara Angelucci
Curator Bio: Sara Angelucci is a photo and video artist living in Toronto. She completed her B.A. at the University of Guelph and her M.F.A. at the Nova Scotia College of Art and Design. She has exhibited her photography across Canada including exhibitions at Le Mois de la Photo in Montreal, Ace Art in Winnipeg, Vu in Quebec City, the Toronto Photographer’s Workshop, the MacLaren Art Centre, the Art Gallery of Hamilton and the Richmond Art Gallery. Sara’s videos have screened across Canada, Europe and Hong Kong. Sara has participated in artist residencies at NSCAD (Halifax), the Banff Centre and at Biz-Art in Shanghai, China. Her work is represented by the Wynick/Tuck Gallery and V-Tape in Toronto.
Artists: Ivan Jurakic
Aubrey Reeves
Description: Constellations integrates the video installation Dagbok by Aubrey Reeves and the related photograph Reclamation with the sculptural installation Avatar by Ivan Jurakic. These works were inspired by World War II archival materials that reveal personal experiences. Reeves takes
inspiration from the journal of Petter Moen an insurance man, who in wartime became the head of Oslo’s clandestine press, while Jurakic uses a photograph that pictures his father (part
of a post-war reclamation crew) standing in the cock-pit of a downed Nazi plane as a backdrop to his sculptural re-creation of the plane. The exhibition is curated by Sara Angelucci,
and offers contemplative ideas on the complex relationships created by war.
Media & Techniques:

approaches:

historical

subjects:

psychology

themes:

violence/death
order/chaos
memory
language/text
identity/self
reconstruction

This database record last modified: Thu, Feb 7, 2008