Exhibitions 2000-2001
July 12 - Aug. 11, 2001
PROOF 8
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Karin Bubas from the Happy Friday
Night series, 1999
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Karin Bubas (Vancouver), Claire Faukenberg, Dax Morrison, Alexandra Bettencourt (Ontario), Myriam Yates, Michella Devine (Montréal)
Proof is an annual juried exhibition that gives emerging Canadian artists an opportunity to exhibit their work in a professional context. A jury composed of one or more previous Proof participants along with several exhibition selection committee members chooses work selected from a national call for submissions. Focusing its selection criteria on the quality of work rather than imposing an over arching thematic structure, Proof attempts to tap into current concerns of emerging artists, looking for clues in what to expect in the future of contemporary Canadian photographic art.
Karin Bubas' work documents public and private spaces that often go unnoticed. Her series Happy Friday Night (each 30" x 30"), shot during a trip to Tokyo, describes scenes which read as ironic attempts to reintroduce images of nature in the midst of an iron and concrete metropolis. Claire Faukenberg's heart-land (36" x 36" each) presents viewers with vast tracts of land "in-between" city and country, whose surface manipulation (sledge hammered, marked upon, blow-torched) speaks of treatment the land may have borne. Alexandra Bettencourt's The Wallpaper Series is composed of diptychs (16" x 20") which juxtapose photographic images with wall paper images suggesting a process of memory and association. Myriam Yates' Promenade (1 x 1.5 metres each) juxtaposes personal interior space with an enigmatic exterior suggesting a range of possible relationships between the two spaces and the individuals who occupy them. Michella Devine's Untitled is a photographic installation with video which muses on the notion of photographs begetting memory (and other photographs).