NOSTALGIA FOR THE PRESENT
Site-specific installations by artist collective Blue Republic
April 12, 2008 - May 18, 2008
Opening reception: Saturday, April 12
Artist talk: 2:00 to 3:00 pm
Reception: 3:00 to 5:00 pm
Free admission opening day
Blue Republic has continued to produce installations that combine humour, wit and metaphor to stimulate discourse on political ideas, power structures and economic imbalances. In Nostalgia for the Present, artists Anna Passakas and Radoslaw Kudlinski assemble artworks from discarded industrial materials and re-fashioned ready-mades, inviting reflection on the commonplace and the ideologies that inscribe them. In this site specific installation, a meta-city is created, approaching notions of utopia and dystopia though a fictional, futuristic lens, revealing the desires, fantasies and prejudices that drive our contemporary society.
From catalogue foreword by Carolyn Bell Farrell, Exhibition Curator
Originated and Circulated by the Koffler Gallery, Toronto
Curated by Carolyn Bell Farrell
image: Speeding from Beautiful Infections (detail)
