Two exhibitions
dal 10/12/2004 al 6/3/2005
Segnalato da
10/12/2004
Two exhibitions
The Power Plant, Toronto
A twenty-year retrospective of Ken Lum's internationally-renowned photo-based works. Lum has created artworks in widely diverse media, including furniture installations, performance works, videos and paintings, as well as a large body of photographs with texts. Emma Kay is known for her text-based works examining the subjective nature of knowledge and memory, and the systems we use to perceive, store and access bodies of knowledge.
Ken Lum
Works With Photography
Ken Lum Works With Photography is a twenty-year retrospective of Ken Lum's internationally-renowned photo-based works. Since the start of his artistic career in the late '70s, Lum has created artworks in widely diverse media, including furniture installations, performance works, videos and paintings, as well as a large body of photographs with texts. Lum's questioning of the relationship between high art and popular culture is long-standing, and his works reflect both a photographic self-reflexivity and a graphic design sensibility in their presentation. Lum constructs provocative photographic portraits accompanied by words that seem to express personal, intimate sentiments, yet are displayed in commercial, logo-styled text. These seemingly private portraits, publicly displayed, often reflect inquiries into the nature and the performance of identity.
Ken Lum lives and works in Vancouver. Since 1978, he has had numerous exhibitions worldwide. Recent solo exhibitions include the National Gallery of Canada, Ottawa (2002-03); Camden Arts Centre, London (1995); and Witte De With Center, Rotterdam (1990). He represented Canada at the XXIV São Paulo Bienal and the Shanghai Biennale and his work was included in Documenta 11, Kassel (2002); Cities on the Move, Secession, Vienna (1997); and Art et Publicité, Centre Georges Pompidou, Paris (1990). Lum is Associate Professor of Fine Arts, University of British Columbia, an active art critic, and serves as editor for Yishu: Journal of Contemporary Chinese Art.
The exhibition is organized and circulated by the Canadian Museum of Contemporary Photography, an affiliate of the National Gallery of Canada. Sponsor for the Power Plant’s presentation of Ken Lum Works with Photography: BMO Nesbitt Burns.
Image: Ken Lum, We Are Sacred Blade, 1990. Chromogenic print, aluminum, enamel, Sintra, 121.3 x 279.4 cm. Courtesy of Andrea Rosen Gallery, New York.
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Emma Kay
British artist Emma Kay is known for her text-based works examining the subjective nature of knowledge and memory, and the systems we use to perceive, store and access bodies of knowledge. This winter, the Power Plant presents The Story of Art (2003), a digitally animated text projected onto the gallery wall, that shows a chronological history of visual art, starting with its earliest moments, such as cave painting, and continuing right up to the present day. Kay has written the text for this work entirely from memory, without recourse to books or other research aids, an approach consistent with her practice in previous works, such as The Bible from Memory (1997), Shakespeare from Memory, (1998), and Worldview (1999).
Emma Kay’s work has been shown in numerous exhibitions internationally, including solo exhibitions at Tate Modern, London (2003); Armand Hammer Museum, Los Angeles (2001) and Chisenhale Gallery, London (2001) and group exhibitions such as ARS 01, Kiasma, Helsinki (2001); The British Art Show 5, Hayward Gallery, London (2000); the Istanbul Biennal (2000). Kay received her M.A. from Goldsmiths College in 1997.
This exhibition is made possible with the support of the British Council.
The Power Plant
231 Queens Quay West Toronto, Ontario, Canada M5J 2G8