Lots going on these days. This is one thing-- a window installation at Gallery 1313 that opens Thursday, June 27th, from 7-10 pm. Come check it out!
Tara Bursey
THE END (SEVEN SAMURAI)
Gallery 1313 Window Box
July 2013
The End uses film title imagery to address global warming and the effect that it will inevitably (continue to) have on food production. It also explores our collective inclination to mark epochs and define the time we live in. If the mid 20th century and its golden age of cinema could be considered an age of illusion and suspended belief, perhaps our current era can be characterized by a general loss of illusions.
Simultaneously a celebration of mid-century design and a meditation on loss, The End points to our tendency to repeatedly mark historical periods as a series of ends while pondering the precariousness of our environment in the present. The End (Seven Samurai), the latest incarnation of this series, references a classic film about bandits threatening a farm’s harvest.
Tara Bursey is an artist and emerging curator whose interests include sculpture, installation, performance, social practice, textile art and culture, food, contemporary craft practices, collaboration and publishing.
This exhibition will be accompanied by an essay by Noa Bronstein, Director of Exhibitions, Gladstone Hotel.
Gallery 1313
1313 Queen Street West
Toronto, ON. M6K 1L8
Hours: Wed – Sun, 1:00 pm – 6:00 pm
Phone: 416-536-6778
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