The McMaster Museum of Art presents:
Conspiracies of Illusion: Projections of Time & Space
Sherman Gallery
August 28 – November 3, 2012
Curated by Mark A. Cheetham, Andy Patton and Christine Sprengler
Reception: Thursday September 13, 6-8 pm
Artist’s Talk by Janice Gurney, Nestor Kruger, and Yam Lau: Thursday September 20, 6-8 pm
Curator’s Panel Discussion: Thursday October 18, 6-8 pm
Time and space are routinely considered as homogeneous. But photo and moving image-based works by Canadians Janice Gurney, Nestor Kruger, Yam Lau, American David Reed, and a foundational work by the late German artist Blinky Palermo, challenge this notion by presenting a reconfigured space and time in which each appears to be composed in layers. This reconfigured space radically changes the way in which a 2-D medium (painting or photography) exists and acts; reconfigured time entails a different structure for history, as art is usually thought of as being projected into the future, not the past.
The objective is to explore larger issues about how, within the artwork, images travel in a reconfigured space or time, and open up the paradoxes of temporality. Each work comments on the other in a profound yet non-linear manner, and raises a question that the exhibition explores: how do we document time in art? Or is it art that contours time for us?
An exhibition catalogue with essays by Mark A. Cheetham and Andy Patton and Christine Sprengler is available.
banner image (above), David Reed, The Kiss, 2005,
digital C-print, 15/15,
21.5 x 152 cm,
Courtesy reedstudio, New York
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List of Works in Exhibition
Janice Gurney
Dark Room, 1990
Brief Window, 1991
Nestor Kruger
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Yam Lau
Blinky Palermo
David Reed
Scottie’s Bedroom, 2005
The Kiss, 2005
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