© Angela Grauerholz, La bibliothèque, 1993. Courtesy of Art 45, Montreal and the Olga Korper Gallery, Toronto.
Ryerson image center 33 GOULD STREET, TORONTO M5B2K3 ONTARIO Canada
Angela Grauerholz is a Canadian photographer creating imaginary spaces, glimpses of interiors (either public or private), and ethereal rural and urban landscapes. Grauerholz's subjective vision is contemplative, presenting intimate moments that reveal the passage of time. With their out-of-focus quality, her photographs appear as an autobiographical stream of consciousness, which is transformed by the eyes of the viewers to create a sense of collective memory. Over the course of her career, the artist's use of photography has revealed the world through black and white, and more recently coloured, self-reflective images. From the pictorial nature of her single photographs to composite installations, Grauerholz has contributed to the re-invention of the medium. She emphasizes the materiality of images, proposing new viewing modalities, and embracing new technologies. This exhibition celebrates the artist's career through a survey of more than 70 works, spanning from the 1980s to today.
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Annie MacDonell, Holding Still // Holding Together, (video still), 2016. Multi-channel installation. © Annie MacDonell.
Courtesy of the artist.
Annie MacDonell is a visual artist working with photography, film, installation, and live performance. Her work draws attention to how still and moving images are used and misused, how they are circulated and appropriated, and how they are staged in galleries, cinemas, and beyond. In this newly commissioned, site-specific exhibition in two parts, MacDonnell activates both the white-cube interior of the RIC's University Gallery and the Salah J. Bachir New Media Wall. Holding Still // Holding Together unfolds across an interrelated network of screens, as MacDonell connects distinct modes of presentation that play out separately but remain inextricably linked by their content and their multi-layered treatment.
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© Alec Soth, Park Hyatt Hotel, Tokyo, 2015. Inkjet print on vinyl, 108 x 144.
Focusing on a theme that has flowed like a stream of consciousness through his work for more than 20 years, Alec Soth searched through his far-reaching history of projects to create Hypnagogia, eliciting a perspicuous connection to the transitional stage between wakefulness and sleep. Described as a neurological phenomenon, one recurrently associated with creativity, a hypnagogic state is the dreamlike experience while awake that conjures vivid, sometimes realistic imagery. Luring viewers into a psychological journey through the gallery, Soth's photographs are as much about the spaces they depict as they are about the ways in which he navigates each environment. The images are open to interpretation by viewers, however, to a great extent Soth sees himself in front of the camera, whether lightheartedly poking fun or battling inner demons.
