Night Rain
Jun 10 – Jul 10
Randy Koroluk

Opening Jun 10, 6-8 pm

Randall Koroluk, Watchtower, 2003

The Night Rain series portrays the shifting personal meanings that specific locations hold for me. Through montage, I have combined the qualities of reality associated with photographs of actual places with the qualities of imagination and emotion to express the complex and ambiguous nature of my relationship with these sites. This process extends the photograph’s meaning beyond that of a static architectural symbol. Visual references to natural processes give a sense of animation to the locations portrayed, yet also obscure, erase, and fragment the sites. The combination of realism and indeterminacy are characteristic of all of the images in this series. They can seem to be deteriorating and emerging simultaneously, and to be both intriguing and unsettling.

Randall Koroluk lived in Saskatchewan until 2001 when he moved to Toronto for an MFA from York University. His work deals with autobiography in an open way, incorporating diverse interests with the possibilities of photography, to produce images which both obscure and open up personal history.