Adam Krawesky
dal 27/3/2007 al 23/4/2007
Segnalato da
27/3/2007
Adam Krawesky
Patrick Mikhail Gallery, Ottawa
Weight of space
Weight of space
For the past five years, Adam Krawesky’s professional art practice has involved
documenting life on the streets, and
how people interact in open, public environments—often unknowing fixtures in an
urban landscape.
In Weight of space, Krawesky continues this investigation with a new series of
images of anonymous figures
moving through the city—reflecting the ways that people engage with their urban
environments. The artist’s street
scenes evoke the relationship between the omnipresence of the built city, and the
ways humans navigate and make
sense of the spaces around them. In Krawesky's photography, the monotony of
everydayness is countered by the
emotive qualities of space in a manner that recalls Henri Lefebvre's formulation of
modern space as at once conceived,
perceived, and lived. Krawesky's solitary figures carry the ambiguous burden of the
city, embodying a response to the
anonymity and enclosure that characterize urban space.
Krawesky’s work has recently been showcased as part of the Visible City Project +
Archive. The Visible City Project
seeks to understand how artists and urbanists are engaging with issues of
citizenship inside cities (from work on
homelessness to new kinds of urban design and public art). The project investigates
how art practices (visual and
media arts, performance, and literary) might be used to educate and transform the
experience of urban dwelling and
planning in light of the changing technological, economic, and cultural experiences
of globalization. The research
examines artistic practices and urban planning that engages not only with the unique
sense of the local, but also the
trans-local, strengthening connections to other places through new cultural
circuits. The project is currently focused
on trans-local networks in three cities: Toronto, Havana, and Helsinki. The work
generated by the project (interviews,
artists projects and urban interventions) is published in the Visible City Archive
on an ongoing basis. Krawesky’s work
has also been showcased in PUBLIC (Public 32, “Urban Interventions” (2005),
co-edited by Saara Liinamaa, Janine
Marchessault, and Karyn Sandlos), a unique interdisciplinary journal that explores
contemporary cultural issues.
Bridging scholarly and critical studies with artistic practices, PUBLIC is a forum
in which international artists, critics,
and theorists exchange ideas on topics previously segregated by ideological
boundaries.
Adam Krawesky’s work has been exhibited in Toronto at the Gladstone Hotel, Toronto
Free Gallery, and the Propeller
Centre for the Visual Arts. He has been part of Alley Jaunt and the Contact Toronto
Photography Festival, as well as
group exhibitions at Patrick Mikhail Gallery. His work can be found in both private
and corporate collections.
Patrick Mikhail Gallery
2401 Bank Street - Ottawa