Immediacy
Feb 12 – Mar 13
Terry Pidsadny

Opening Feb 12, 6-8 pm




Terry Pidsadnyl, Untitled from the series Immediacy 2002


Immediacy addresses the mutable relationship between human impulse and technology. Our nature compels us to experience the entirety of our existence with great urgency. Using television as a metaphor for life experiences, I superimpose random stills obscured with arbitrarily placed paper strips, resulting in semi-abstract images which play upon the human mind’s imperative to grasp abstractions in a personally significant symbolic framework. We accept the idea that technology facilitates expediency and depth of our experiences. Although the images appear digital, it becomes apparent they are authentically analogue. Supposing our perceptions may have been modified, I pose the proverbial question – are we changing technology, or is it changing us?

Terry Pidsadny graduated from the University of Toronto in 1996. Since then he has been working in the areas of conceptual photography and documentary. He has worked as a photography instructor for The Living Arts Centre (Mississauga) and recently spent two years in Zimbabwe working with and training regional photo-journalists. Pidsadny currently lives and works in Toronto, where he is showing concurrently at The Harbourfront Centre (Jan. 30 – Mar. 7, 2004).