Matchbox 2014 Inventory of Memory
The Matchbox Project 2014 is a collection of 10 artists’ interpretations of grand ideas held in tiny matchboxes.
Inventory of Memory co-founder, co-curator Natalie Draz, Hea R. Kim (since 2014)
Exhibition - April, 2014 MousePrint Gallery Concordia University
Gen Moisan Looking at today’s social context and being inspired by historical textile works, my research lie halfway between craft traditions and digital technology. While working in the studio, I question the notion of conceptual thinking through a material practice, through « making » as well as the renewal of the interest towards craft based practices in today’s contemporary art world. My woven pieces aim at revealing the many relationships between the private world of the home and the public one that is offered by the city and the Internet. Using imagery taken both from the Internet and my own, I weave and embroider the fine line between discomfort and anticipation, between presence and the definition of non-places making portraits of characters sitting on benches, of passersby, to materialize the new relationships that form in public spaces. genevievemoisan.com
Fibers
Hideki Kawashima facebook.com/hideki.kawashima.90
intaglio, inkjet
Natalie Draz ‘Electric Love’ Natalie Draz is an artist documenting her neighbourhoods with bold, eye-popping illustrations. Drawn to clean inked lines, architectural details and the gorgeous palette of ink and watercolour, her illustrations transform from drawings into three dimensional papercuts that pop off the page. Intermingling illustration, watercolour, printmaking and pop up artist books, Natalie creates art that unfolds, pops up, fans open and reveals her metropolitan stories. nataliedraz.com instagram.com/nataliedraz
screenprinting
Sarah Galarneau ‘Microspheres’ Within my artistic practice, I reflect upon the notion of otherworldliness and examine human perception in relation to plant life, geographic formations and microscopic entities. Additionally, I also attempt to challenge our perception by inviting viewers to question their familiarity with and way of thinking about botany and the notion of the “natural world”. Elements of what is traditionally considered “nature” are typically observed in a panoptic way, as well as seen as separate from the world of humans. Botany also serves symbolic purposes. What happens when depictions of nature are abstracted? Changes in scale, colour, context and form can make an otherwise recognizable image seem uncanny or wholly unusual. How well are we acquainted with our own planet, and at what point might we assume that something is not actually of our world, but of an invented one?
intaglio
Pauline Johnson ‘Make your Typee’ I explore through use of storytelling methods as comic books and graphic novels. When I think about creating stories my artwork come from stories from learning oral narratives from Indigenous elders,culture and help shape my artworks. The essence of this piece is how do you describe where you live? With a street directions and visual markers unique to you? When you describe finding a place to someone else the first things that you describe is if they know a specific landmark or street name. If you had no more signs. No more GPS. From your point of view, how would you describe to get to point A to B. Making your own Teepee, they described each family, by creating an icon to label a home. If you had only visual markers, how would you describe your home through iconography on the teepee? plinejo.wordpress.com instagram.com/plinejo
screenprint, typography
Jenifer Adey ‘In Search of Smoked’ Jennifer Aedy is a biracial, multimedia artist from the greater Toronto area who completed her BFA at Concordia, spanning the realms of Art History, Studio Art and Print Media. Her artwork involves explorations of personal identity, depictions of societal and political commentary & observations of modern media, with notes of seriousness and satire. She loves to collaborate with other writers and artists, as well as developing her ever-expanding, independent body of work. She has presented her art history research at conferences in both Montreal and Toronto instagram.com/jennaedy
digital print, screenprint
Isabelle Fleurelien ‘Clown Tissue’ bellefleure.work facebook.com/fleurelien instagram.com/miss.if_mtl instagram.com/see_press
digital print, tissue paper
Camille Cléant ‘réflexion cosmique’ camillecleant.com instagram.com/tattoocleant
screenprint
Collaboration (Hea R. Kim & Jon P.) ‘Space Walking’ Hea R. Kim
Through the various media, Kim aims to increase the notion of innocence and she is challenged to engage the philosophical limits of what craft and art are as well as what they could be. heakim.weebly.com instagram.com/hea_creative
Jon P.
Jon P.’s unique treatment of line drawing is the key to his artworks. The motives in his body of work vary from social issues to universal and ambiguous things. jon-p.weebly.com instagram.com/jon_p_art
screenprint, digital print, ceramics
Sarah Robinson ‘a the day at the lake’ I am drawn to woods and meadows, streams, lakes and skies ... and so these are what most easily come to be recreated in paintings and original prints. I also love tinkering with simple furniture designs or repurposing old elements into something that tells a story with painting or print. cornerstudio.org/photography instagram.com/paddleon
screenprint, mixed media
Inventory of Memory @inventoryofmemory
catalogue design by @Jon P.