Many Space presented by Art Matters & Nuit blanche à Montréal, Facilitated by Charles Harding
Link (view the room): https://hub.link/ANp6s5d
I’m really thankful to be a part of a really cool exhibition opening last weekend. I’ve curated and designed this virtual gallery space in Mozilla Hubs for Art Matters festival in collaboration with Nuit blanche à Montréal. This event opened on Saturday Feb. 26th, 2022 and anyone can come explore the space and see several works by some really great artists.
My goal for this space was to loosely model Concordia’s VAV courtyard, which will be the place for the accompanying physical installation of this project in mid-march. When the physical installation is set up there will be a finissage in which a “virtual window” connecting the physical and digital spaces will open.
Curatorial Statement:
This collaborative exhibition between Art Matters and Nuit Blanche is a multidimensional experience presented both virtually on Mozilla Hubs and physically at the courtyard of Concordia’s VA building. With each version of the space being a parallel of its own alternate dimension, attendees can be left with the feeling that they are exploring on a plane only slightly detached from a sibling reality. Each of the spaces holds a video window to their alternate dimension in which guests can observe this thinning duality between physical and digital space. The exhibition is adorned with beautiful sights, sounds, and expressions from a group of artists whose works span mediums from movement to image to written word. Many of the works explore a perceptual playfulness in their approaches to hybridity in the technology of their presentation. Fibers become digital, nature becomes stillness, words become space, material becomes meaning. Concisely and abstractly, the works are joined by an attribute of expanded affordability across material, process, and display. Guests of the exhibition may find themselves in new modes of viewership, both observing something that has been made but also contributing to an affordance of imagination, projecting visions of a creative process only a viewer could conceive.
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