10/12/2002
Unlocal
Artspeak, Vancouver
Unlocal is a project involving three Vancouver photographers connected through their engagement with a discreet observation of the material world and for whom photography maintains its status as document to the real. The exhibition will feature new photographic work by Jane Lee and Gabor Koleszar, and a text by established Vancouver photographer Howard Ursuliak.
Gabor Koleszar and Jane Lee
"Both Lee and Koleszar are emerging artists working within a city that has a
dominant tradition of photographic practices, a context that is ripe for some
cross-cultural mutation...both practices suggest an embodied relationship with
the camera that has not been usurped by an interest in digital technologies"
Howard Ursuliak
unlocal is a project involving three Vancouver photographers connected through
their engagement with a discreet observation of the material world and for
whom photography maintains its status as document to the real. The exhibition
will feature new photographic work by Jane Lee and Gabor Koleszar, and a text
by established Vancouver photographer Howard Ursuliak. Jane Lee's photographic
work, like her performance practice, is drawn from a wry and distant view of
the peculiarities found in the everyday. Her photographs trace the remains of
social relations, or the detritus of contemporary mobility, in quiet
compositions. Koleszar's approach relies upon the camera's potential to make
abstract the familiarity of the material world, connecting his practice to
eastern European photographers of the 1920's and '30s. In an interview format,
Ursuliak investigates their work in relation to the practices of
photo-conceptualist artists of this region, around ideas of place, the absent
social body implied in their work and their embodied points of view.
Jane Lee's photographs have been exhibited in Supersonic Transport at Charles
H. Scott Gallery, as part of the patti collective, and at Streetlevel Gallery
in Glasgow. Her performance and installation work with the Ladies¹ Afternoon
Art Society has been presented at Access Artist-run Centre in Vancouver and at
Skol in Montreal.
Gabor Koleszar's photographs have been exhibited in solo exhibitions at Tamas
Kettos-Tilos Gallery in Romania and Scene-Cultural Centre in Oroszlany,
Hungary. Group exhibitions include X. Fotobiennale-Balassa Balint Museum,
Esztergom, and the Institute for Political History in Budapest.
Howard Ursuliak's work has been exhibited in solo exhibitions at Monte Clarke
Gallery, Toronto, Galeria Fucares, Madrid, Centro de Fotografia, Salamanca,
Spain and Quartier Ephemere, Montreal and in group exhibitions at Charles H.
Scott Gallery, Vancouver, Angles Gallery in Los Angeles, and the Canadian
Museum of Contemporary Photography in Ottawa.
Image: Gabor Koleszar, dimensions variable, C-Prints, 2001
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