Hap Hazard
Sept 12 - Oct 25
Pamila Matharu

Pamila Matharu, Video Still, Hap Hazard, 2003

Hap Hazard is a non-narrative, abstract experiment of sound and image explored in ephemeral and transitory spaces. At the speed of a digital moment, the exploration nonetheless enters an analog realm, involving the many hours of banal and unglamorous moments that form part of the everyday act of commuting. Using found film, sound and low-tech Lomographic snapshots, Hap Hazard depicts the ambiguous space that lies between the conscious and unconscious mental thought processes that occur while travelling. Temporal and immediate, this space is an intersection of the passage of time, anticipation, waiting, roaming... arrival.

Biography:
Pamila Matharu is a South Asian-Canadian multidisciplinary artist, born in Birmingham, England, based in Toronto. She received a BFA in Studio Art and a Bachelor of Education specializing in Fine Art Education from York University. Recent work has been screened at Images Festival and Inside Out Festival and she was awarded the Images’ Marion McMahon Award, and Inside Out’s Best Up and Coming Toronto Film or Video Maker. Her video work is distributed through V tape.