Like the big dipper with individual stars aligning into form, the works in Constellations create images using elemental forms of light - a beam traversing a pin-prick, an incandescent filament, or an exposed silver-halde particle. In Aubrey Reeves' video installation Dagbok (diary) and Ivan Jurakic's photo and sculptural installations Reclamation and Avatar, light coalesces into words, a photograph, an airplane, but in shifting your gaze they dissolve again into a galaxy of abstract flickerings. The works in this exhibition were inspired by Second World War archival materials that reveal a glimmer of personal wartime experience.
Aubrey Reeves balances a career as an artist, curator, and arts administrator in Toronto, Ontario. She is the Programming Director at Trinity Square Video, one of Canada's oldest artitst-run media art centres. Aubrey completed her MA at the Center for Curatorial Studies at Bard College in New York and also holds a BA from University of Toronto.
Ivan Jurakic is a visual artist, writer and curator at Cambridge Galleries. He has an Honours BA from the University of Guelph and an MFA from the University of Guelph and an MFA from the State University of New York at Buffalo. His writing has been published in Fuse Magazine, Espace Sculpture, Lola, Mix Magazine, C International and in numerous exhibition publications.
