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Location: Jack Layton Ferry Terminal
Brazilian artist Iara Freiberg creates site-specific interventions that explore the ways in which urban spaces are used, playing with perceptions of the built environment. Intimately entwined with the structures they occupy, her spatial drawings rely on the rigors of geometry, revealing harmonious or opposing tensions within the architecture and soliciting the viewers awareness. The Koffler Gallery has invited Freiberg to create where Im waiting from, her first commissioned work in Canada, engaging with one of Torontos main civic portals the Jack Layton Ferry Terminal. Creating a monumental yet minimalist vinyl drawing that responds to the complex geometry of the site, Freiberg enables a new way of looking at this built structure, generating dialogue about the public and private places we dwell in and navigate. where Im waiting from proposes an outsiders gaze encountering the peculiarities of the Terminals architecture, highlighting structural harmonies and tensions that become evident only when one is situated within the space. The intervention overlays a unifying structuring principle across the existing architecture by imagining an incision that virtually traverses the entire compound. Reacting to each section of the site with its specific elements, the conceived incision exposes a rhythm integrated to the play of crossing angles and plunging perspectives. The colour yellow marks the poured concrete surface as a beam of light that intersects the Ferry Terminal, tracing a luminous presence and transforming the location into a beacon on the citys shore. —————— Presented by the Koffler Gallery Off-Site at Jack Layton Ferry Terminal 9 Queens Quay West June 13, 2013 October 27, 2013 Curator: Mona Filip http://www.kofflerarts.org/ 416-638-1881 x4270 OPENING RECEPTION Thursday, June 13, 2013 | 6 9 PM | FREE CONTEMPORARY ART BIKE TOUR Sunday, July 7, 2 5 PM | FREE Led by artist Corwyn Lund in conversation with historian and critic Kenneth Hayes, the tour explores two Koffler Gallery Off-Site projects and several public art works in between. Tour starts with Lunds site-specific installation, Word Count, at Epic Condominium Development, 48 Abell Street, then travels by bike to Iara Freibergs where Im waiting from, at the Jack Layton Ferry Terminal. (Rain date: Sunday, July 21, 2 5 PM)
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