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Toronto artist Kristiina Lahde alters and re-formats ordinary objects and materials through a process of geometric re-organization in which measurement and pattern play a significant role. Finding the overlooked potential of envelopes, newspapers, telephone books and measuring tapes, Lahde manipulates and de-familiarizes them in ways that shift, expand, invert, or otherwise transform their internal logic.
For ULTRA-PARALLEL, her solo exhibition at the Koffler Gallery, Lahde expands her work to a large scale and into the use of three-dimensional space. The new body of work engages with the architecture of the site, investigating tension, gravity, angles, parallel lines and crossing perspectives.
Working with primary geometric forms – square, circle, triangle, cube, sphere, pyramid – Lahde reimagines elementary shapes and objects that attempt to mediate our relationship with and understanding of the physical world, serving as tools for empirical exploration. However, by highlighting the process of their making and subjecting them to unusual situations, Lahde’s works reveal both the structure and collapse of their functionality. Succumbing to gravity, her playfully compromised objects create new tensions within the architectural space.
OPENING RECEPTION: Thursday, January 22, 2015 | 6 to 9 PM | FREE
Exhibition open January 22 – March 29, 2015
Koffler Gallery | Artscape Youngplace
180 Shaw Street | Curator: Mona Filip
Exhibition generously supported by the Hal Jackman Foundation
REGULAR EXHIBITION HOURS
Tuesday to Friday, 12 PM – 6 PM
Saturday & Sunday, 11 AM – 5 PM
Closed Mondays and statutory holidays
Admission is FREE
Full details: http://kofflerarts.org/
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