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Ethan Lester presents Grey’s Blue Boys, 2015, an installation produced by a recent road trip. Reminiscent of Nan Goldin or Cardiff & Miller, Grey’s Blue Boys, 2014 is a celebration of the gallery’s ability to showcase personal stories further transforming them into fictions. Particularly the use of a slide projector: a dated form of story telling which now lives in purgatory, somewhere in between the family room and the lecture hall. The contents of the exhibit are signifiers of diary like processes, editorial collections of two men traversing a foreign landscape. The photographs, writings, debris and soundtrack create the blueprint for a queer stoner film. It’s Thelma & Louise meets Gilbert and George, a black comedy about two gay best friends driving down the coast. The narrator and beloved heroine is a 2007 Dodge Caravan named Grey; she is voiced by the boys’ Mothers. From the beaches to the bars, the parks to the McDonalds, Grey tells the stoic story of the blue boys who pose for the camera.
Lester’s research investigates the production of fictional autobiography. As his life constructs the work, the work constructs his life. His practice considers freedom of artistic process, manufacturing his experiences with fiction. This freedom drives his work in a multidisciplinary way -recording an album, constructing a murphy bed, making a wig out of his own hair- intuitively jumping from medium to medium in order to expand each project. Lester tests the malleability of identity through a performative process, leaving the audience to mythologize within metaphorical mise-en-scenes. Other characters produced include: The Hermit, elizabethan, David Pan, LICHEN, Brock Redbird and Three Women. Lester is a recent graduate from The University of Victoria’s MFA program. He is now based in Toronto.
Exhibition is open from January 13 to January 30, 2015
Join us for the reception and opening of the exhibition, or check it out throughout the course of the exhibition. Or both
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