Terra Nova (matchbox 2018-2019)

Terra Nova matchbox 2018-19

Terra Nova:

“New Earth” “New Land”

Terrarium is

an enclosed eco-system

a venue where mimics natural world a concept of microcosm

It can be a whimsical space you could put your imagination.

m u i r a Terr

Anne Devautour. Clara Micheau . Danuta Sierhuis .

Karine Lepage . BenoĂŽt ChaussĂŠ. Jon P.

Outside/Inside

The work lies in working on the contrast between the two spaces of the box, using a metaphor whereby the exterior would be someone’s social and collective space, and the inside their emotional and intimate space. Within the box, lies a character in porcelaine, sleeping , surrounded and almost buried in organic elements (ceramics, metal, rocks, etc). This echoes the thematic of a terrarium where one lives in a confined environment. The same character is represented in an illustration on the outside of the box and is surrounded by an ocean of people, which creates a similar visual effect to the accumulation of organic elements inside the box. We aim to show two aspects of everybody’s life: being with oneself and being with others, and the search for a balance between the two.

Outsid e Inside Clara Micheau is a young artist currently completing

her undergraduate degree in MontrĂŠal. As a sculptor, she works with clay, silicone, resin and digital medias. Her interests lie in individuality, social structures and memories which she explores in surrealist allegories.

She is fascinated by tales and likes to inform herself from magical realism, ancient Greece history and phenomenology.

Instagram @walyco_art clara.micheau@outlook.com

Anne Devautour is a Montreal based French artist.

Modeling, carving, juxtaposing‌ using clay, stone, glass, wood, metal, bronze, it often starts with a found material or object which draws her attention.As she collects the objects and materials, she explores personal archeology, tools and art, the relation between art and the viewer.

She defines her own space somewhere between craftswoman and artist. instagram.com/annedeza

Sculpture Gardens (Terrariums 1-12)

The Sculpture Gardens series references sculptures of mythological goddesses, like Athena, Hera and Aphrodite. In art history, women’s bodies are frequently on display for the gazes of others, particularly the male gaze.

Here, collaged images of goddesses are presented in terrariums, objects of display, with brightly coloured embroidered and painted foliage. By adding embroidered elements to my images, I invoke feminine activity and aim to celebrate and reassert the feminine gaze and its power.

Danuta Sierhuis is a fibre and multimedia artist and arts administrator currently based in Kingston, ON. Her work explores art historical iconography and the relationships between colours, textures and shapes in minimalist designs.

danutasierhuis.com Instagram @danuta_weaves

Fragments from an unknown place

This piece references the constant desire for humans to control, fragment, and reduce the space around them to a comprehensible and tangible entity. Despite all kinds of fabricated systems, despite an abundance of inquiries upon microscopic and macroscopic phenomena, something always seems to scape from the human’s grasp, something about the nature of reality itself and our capacity to accept a world determined by unbreakable laws … or not.

Karine Lepage was born and raised in the region of Témiscamingue, Québec, Canada. Now a Montreal based artist, her multi media work explores the human’s quest to understand the nature of reality and the constant conflict between the philosophies of changelessness and unceasing changes. She received her BFA in Studio Arts from Concordia University, Montréal, Canada and her MFA from the University of Georgia, GA, USA. instagram.com/studio_karine_lepage

Benoit Chaussé’s performance,

sound, and motion graphics work, obsessed with the obscene, the scatological and childish imageries. His work as a part of the Montreal-based Pac Pac, former performance collective, has crossed Québec province with performances that present anti-spectacles consisting of actions and images that are at the same time mystical, grotesque and sensual, “who offer up ourselves as objects of ridicule before a public often perplexed and sometimes disappointed.” vimeo.com/studioshit

No Signal

Please Standby

working as a technician over 13 years for the Intermedia Department (Video Production, Performance Arts & Electronic for Artist) at Concordia University, inspires me to create the thematic of terrarium.

By using scavenge electronic parts, lighting supplies and recycle components I try to relate to video technology within garden aesthetics.

Jon P.

has been working mainly in drawing graphics, both within a commercial setting and the contemporary art world. ​With BFA and MFA in the fields of Fine Art, Design, Animation and Illustration Art, his unique treatment of line drawing is the key to his works. The motives in his body of work vary from social issues to universal and ambiguous things. His works have been featured in South Korea, Japan and Canada in both exhibitions and magazines.

s u t c a C r Dea

I am very enthusiastic gardener but I have to confess that I am a plant murderer. I have adopted small cacti, unfortunately, they cannot stay long. I actually can’t remember how many my fatalities are. I started to admit that plants are not my gift.

A literal definition of terrarium is an ‘enclosed land’.

Instead of creating the dingy humidity of the sealed environment for plants I decide to make a mini-memory book for Bereavement for a line-up of innocent cactus victims that were not aware of their impending demise.

Fairytale Food Food is something that

links to spaces and places.

Sometimes food has

a form of magic and also power

to evoke changes Food changes over time and also changes us.

In fairy tales, we really are what we eat… and we are what eat us as well.

Katerina Pansera, Véronique Vallières, Gulnaz Turdalieva, Genvieve Darling, Hea R. Kim, Lynn Carrick, Eugene Park

An

Unexpected Visitor

Herein is a place setting, to be kept at the ready should an unexpected visitor arrive during meal time.

Frequently a mysterious figure appears on a doorstep and catalyzes a fairytale, bestowing either misfortune or good things, perhaps depending on the reception that they are given. The fairytale foodchain does not always follow the logic we are accustomed to: the unexpected visitor could be a hungry predator, a bearer of foods, or else become dinner itself. The “menu” shows a selection of potential guests/meals (eat or be eaten? animal, vegetable, human, mineral, confection.)

Katerina Pansera

is an artist from Montréal working primarily in painting. She is interested in that which can be implied and investigated when human bodies are absent pictorially, and explores the confluence of painting as observed object & the performance of femininity.

She studied at Concordia University and the École nationale supérieure d’art de Nancy, and is currently an MFA candidate at Rutgers Mason Gross School of the Arts. www.katerinapansera.com

Stone Soup

is a story told, in various incarnations cross-culturally, about the values of sharing. The tale could be seen as manipulative, coercing others into sharing but I choose to see it in a different light. For myself Stone Soup represents asking for help and being proactive when you don’t get it. Finding resources that you didn’t know you had inside of you and creating something from nothing. More literally changing a stone into a bountiful soup. (Place stone under warm water to see thermochromatic magic)

Véronique Vallières

is a Toronto-based, multimedia artist, working primarily in ceramics, textiles and printmaking. They hold a BFA from Concordia University and have attended residencies in Montréal, Moncton and Winnipeg. As a film curator, they co-programmed monthly film and performance events for the Revue Cinema.

Vallières has received multiple grants for their work, which has been exhibited widely, and most recently, acquired for the CAMH permanent art collection. instagram.com/v.vallieres

Gulnaz Turdalieva

is a Windsor-based artist who works in acrylics, watercolors, and mixed media such as pen and ink and collage. She creates paintings and drawings that explore different themes that express the beauty and joy of the world around her. Her approach pushes the boundaries between realism and abstraction and includes the manipulation of colours and tones within various visual media.

Instagram: @bluefloret

Grandma’s Visit

This matchbox represents an imaginary box of Grandma's recipes. A twist on Little Red Riding Hood that is illustrated in a mini concertina book using watercolour and mixed media. I reflect on my family story about a lost recipe for a grandmother’s green pie that she brought with her each spring during her trip to our house. Red, blue, and black represents our grief and lost memory of a big part of our family tradition. Blank pages represent her pie’s missing ingredients that are still a mystery for us.

Juicy Mouth

Food symbolizes sexuality and gender identity both in fairytale and modern society. This is a foundational premise for our creation. Appetite often suggests sexual desire. Food imagery across current social media clearly suggests that we associate sex with food. For example, we can find easily the so-called hashtag food porn. By softly visualizing juicy, greedy parts of our desire fore food, we aim to portray a mixture of emotional stages, craving, and loving in the enchanted way.

Genvieve Darling

The driving topics of Darling’s illustrations are connectedness, queerness and nature. She explores lesbian representation and queer love through a soft and dreamy aesthetic. More specifically, she creates images of tenderness that are meant to be relatable, comforting and validating while challenging heteronormative views of our society.

Elements of nature are an important part of her imagery as a reminder of our belonging in the natural world and as a reflection of the deepest movements that inhabits us.

instagram.com/lovestruckprints

Hea R. Kim

is South Korea-born and Canadian immigrant multidisciplinary artist interested in creating playful, thoughtful and technically-sophisticated installations.

At first glance, Kim’s work can appear child-like and playful, but they are bizarrely sophisticated because of the labor involved and the concepts explored. For her, art is a creative arena where mythological, spiritual, and illusionary mindscapes mingle into dream worlds.

Hea’s works have been exhibited in Republic of Korea, Canada, and New York. heakim.weebly.com instagram.com/hea_creative

s s e c Prin& a e P the

Re-formulating, transforming, a previous artwork to the matchbox format. Couture on card ! A series of miniature embroideries, sheets, mattresses, is contained in the box. A bed in a box ! The lid opens up to act as a display easel. Sky blue embroidery on cream card. One pea, a french knot, on the lowest layer. The cover image is a photo of the label of a can of peas, the drawer, Victorian spoons. Fairy tales are allegories, stories to illustrate a lesson. Everyday objects and elements are transformed, scale is removed to reveal magical qualities. A tiny pea, a bean, a pumpkin. Food is such a basic element, human sustenance, that everyone can relate to. If the base elements are understood, the “magic” will seem more real.

It compounds belief to transform something which already exists than to create something impossible. The focus will be on the story and the lesson, rather than questioning the device.

Lynn Carrick

Artist, by way of architecture and hat-making.

Montréal, by way of England and the US. Everything is connected.

Everything already exists.

Everything turns into something else. instagram.com/lapleinelyne lyn.carrick@gmail.com facebook/LynCarrick

Reproof of Curiosity The blood chamber is Angela Carter’s reinterpretation of the fairytale “Bluebeard.” In this writing, she emphasized protagonist’s (young girl who just got married with mysterious middle aged guy, Bluebeard) delicate and ambivalent feelings. When she faced with her sexuality for the first time in his dark chamber, she longed for the sticky liqueur chocolate which has sweet cover with toxic inside. After their sex, Bluebeard left her with all keys of the castle, but never forgot to say, “never use this one key”. Of course she opened the door, like Eve, like Pandora, like any other human who has curiosity.

Eugene Park

is an artist who based in Montreal/Tiohtià:ke, Canada and Seoul, South Korea. She graduated from Ewha Women’s University in Seoul, South Korea and she recently graduated sculpture in Studio Arts at Concordia University.

She received the Sylvie and Simon Blais award for emerging visual artists from Sylvie and Simon Blais Foundation and Yeon Tak Chang Scholarship for emerging Korean Canadian artist from Korean Canadian Scholarship Foundation.

parkeugene.com

instagram.com/studio.eugene_park

Exhibition

Oct. 2019 - Jan. 2020 Proof Studio Gallery, Distillary District, Toronto

All the work-in -progress from the Artis ts

cov er d esig nb y Jo nP.

Thank you artists!

Team

Toronto: Natalie Draz, Sheila Jonah Montreal: Hea R. Kim Illustration: Jon P. Special Thanks to Proof Studio Gallery

Inventory of Memory co-founder, co-curator Natalie Draz, Hea R. Kim

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