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Please join us for the opening reception of Shelagh Keeley: Barcelona Pavilion on Thursday, January 8, from 6 – 9 PM. The artist is in attendance.
Shelagh Keeley: Barcelona Pavilion runs January 8 – 31 at Circuit Gallery @ Prefix ICA.
Website: http://circuitgallery.com/circuitgallery/exhibitions/
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Circuit Gallery is pleased to present an exhibition of photographs by senior Canadian artist Shelagh Keeley These images were taken in 1986 in the newly reconstructed Mies van der Rohe Pavilion in Barcelona, Spain, just before it was reopened to the public.
Keeley is well known for her highly visceral and embodied drawing practice. She has always used photography, incorporating it into her site-specific installation work and drawings through collage, however Keeley’s own photographs are rarely the focus of attention in an exhibition.
Barcelona Pavilion, presented here for the first time, reveals an approach to photography that is consistent with this artist’s broader practice. Here is a subjective and embodied kind of ‘drawing with light’ and poetic engagement with space that is refreshingly irreverent, inconsistent with both our expectation of photography and for pictures of such an iconic work of modernist architecture.
Albeit attracted to the iconic aspects of the celebrated buildingthe materials marble, glass, and metal, the key spaces, and lightthey seem like asides, as her focus is more ambient and on the mundane. She uses photography in a subjective way, where her “less is more” minimal and abstracting compositions are less about describing these sober and rational spaces, than they are about a poetics of space, and about being in them.
Shelagh Keeley: Barcelona Pavilion is the fourth exhibition for Circuit Gallery @ Prefix ICA, a new presentation partnership where the commercial gallery is sharing exhibition space with Prefix ICA in the destination landmark arts building at 401 Richmond Street West in Toronto.
The exhibition is curated by Claire Sykes with catalogue essays by Joel Robinson and Mark Kingwell.
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