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Robert Adams: The Place We Live, A Retrospective Selection of PhotographsSeptember 25, 2010 to January 16, 2011Over the past four decades photographer Robert Adams has come to be widely regarded as one of the most original and significant chroniclers of the western American landscape. The first large-scale exhibition of Adams’ work to be presented in Canada, The Place We Live traces his longstanding engagement with the degradation of the environment in the face of suburban development. |
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Everything EverydayOctober 2, 2010 – January 23, 2011The exhibition title is a nod to the work of Jasper Morrison and Naoto Fukasawa, two designers who used the term ‘super normal’ to describe the design of everyday objects – a chair, a stool, a wine glass – that seem to embody an archetypical design, but may utilize a new material, a shift in scale or proportion, an enhanced performance, or some other extra quality that allows us to simultaneously perceive both the normal and super normal character of that object. In order to be recognized as super normal, objects and events must remain rooted in the everyday while simultaneously signaling their difference. |
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NEXT – Song Dong: Waste NotOctober 2, 2010 to January 16, 2011Song Dong’s monumental installation, titled Waste Not, is a collaboration between the artist and his mother, Zhao Xiangyuan. The installation comprises the frame of his mother’s house along with all of the everyday objects she meticulously collected over the course of her lifetime—a collection of over ten thousand worn and broken objects, each one of little value. Together, the assembled materials—clothes, books, kitchen utensils, toiletries, school supplies, shopping bags, rice bowls, dolls—were used, then recycled, then hoarded. Meticulously arranged in careful groupings throughout the exhibition space, the objects form a miniature cityscape that viewers can navigate around and through. |
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