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EARTHLINGS

EARTHLINGS

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We are of the earth and from the stars, cooked mud and pigmented wax, soot and soda, ink, wood, tobacco, fur, fire, bronze, and acrylic nails – mortal inhabitants of the earth dreaming of our spiritual or extraterrestrial foil. Drawn from this framework of earthly conditions, the visionary ceramics and works on paper of "Earthlings", produced both individually and collaboratively by seven contemporary artists, are at once transformative and otherworldly – and profoundly human. Though making work from distinct cultural and geographical positions – from Kangiqliniq/Rankin Inlet, Kinngait/Cape Dorset, Qamani’tuaq/Baker Lake, and Toronto – the artists in "Earthlings" share an intuitive and labour-intensive approach to materials and narrative imagery. In these works, detailed figures are subject to transformations and transmogrifications, hybrid blendings of animal and human, reality and myth, and actual and imagined spaces. These pieces seem to emerge from phantasmagorical worlds, simultaneously fleshly and physical, sensual and spiritual, alien and familiar.

Exhibition organized and circulated by Esker Foundation, Calgary.

Curator: Shary Boyle, in collaboration with Shauna Thompson.

Artists: Roger Aksadjuak, Shuvinai Ashoona, Pierre Aupilardjuk, Shary Boyle, Jessie Kenalogak, John Kurok, Leo Napayok.

Opening: March 8, 2018 at 5:30 p.m.

2018-03-10
Quartier des spectacles Montreal, Quebec