July 18 – September 7, 2024
Opening reception:
Thursday July 18, 6-8pm
COOPER COLE, Toronto, Canada
↓ InformationCOOPER COLE is pleased to present, Of Doubts and Dreams, a group exhibition featuring artworks by Aysha E Arar, ektor garcia, Timothy Yanick Hunter, Manuel Mathieu, Naudline Pierre, Nickola Pottinger, LaRissa Rogers, Brie Ruais, and Chrysanne Stathacos. Inspired by sci-fi/ fantasy author Samuel R. Delany and his unique ability to capture the essence of the human condition through world-building, this exhibition aims to evoke feelings of wonder, mystery, unease, and strength present in his stories through a selection of media including sculpture, sound, painting, and drawing.
The following text by writer and cultural worker, Farhia Tato accompanies the exhibit:
One of the most crucial dialectics in human knowledge is sound and silence. Bridging these two elements is the echo, the trace of creation. If sound is birth and silence is death, the echo trailing into infinity embodies the experience of life, the source of narrative, and a pattern for history.
Sound becomes its own realm of meaning and discourse, where the word is necessarily tied to a cultural specificity that must always contend with its environment. In turn, sound must grapple with the implications of its echoes and the cultural practices of those far enough away to make their own local meanings out of the echo before it decays and is swallowed by infinity. Encoded in sound are the social, cultural, and economic relationships of the future.
Echo is a metaphor of space, but it is also a metaphor of reciprocity. It suggests something from the past, a sound, while also pointing to the future, a repetition into the distance. Echo is the core; everything else starts with the ability to create echoes. Echo is deeply metaphysical. It is the original, which is the repetition, which is artificial, which is real.
There are always sonic signatures and presences in empty space. There is a textural quality of sound and vibration that we pick up on and respond to. It is necessary to acknowledge traditions that involve mining the silence. Whether successful or not, what matters is the attention brought to those silences, the codes, and the attempts to assemble and reimagine them. Though we can’t fully identify what’s in the silence, it is there we should go.
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Aysha E Arar
A man from heaven
A man from heaven, 2022
Oil pastel crayons on paper
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Aysha E Arar
Watermelon
Watermelon, 2023
Charcoal, ballpoint pen, and pastel on Kafan
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ektor garcia
teleraña
teleraña, 2018
Ceramic, cast aluminium
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ektor garcia
lunasol
lunasol, 2019
Steel, horse hair
Dimensions variable
Manuel Mathieu
Multiverse
Multiverse, 2019
Chalk, charcoal, coloured pencil, pen and ink on paper
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Manuel Mathieu
Paysage sacré
Mixed media on canvas, 2024
Mixed media on canvas
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Naudline Pierre
Familiar Being
Familiar Being, 2023
Acrylic ink, charcoal, and oil pastel on torn paper
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Naudline Pierre
Into the Abyss
Into the Abyss, 2022
Acrylic, ink, and chalk pastel on paper
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Nickola Pottinger
Ah Suh Dem Gwaan
Ah Suh Dem Gwaan, 2023
Paper Pulp, wood, pigments, and hair baubles
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Nickola Pottinger
Inna di stars an ocean
Inna di stars an ocean, 2023
Handmade Paper Pulp, Raw Figments, Oil Pastel, Spring Leaf Flakes, Broken Ceramics
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Nickola Pottinger
Which part it deh
Which part it deh, 2022
Pigments, oil pastels, bristles, foraged gravel and stones, brass, and hand made paper pulp
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LaRissa Rogers
Keloid XI (there is no set of years in which to be born Black and a woman would not be met with violence or a phrenology for departure)
Keloid XI (there is no set of years in which to be born Black and a woman would not be met with violence or a phrenology for departure), 2024
Cannibalized hair receivers, porcelain, glaze, luster
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Brie Ruais
Star Made by Punching the Sky (19)
Star Made by Punching the Sky (19), 2021
Glazed stoneware
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Brie Ruais
Star Made by Punching the Sky (18)
Star Made by Punching the Sky (18), 2021
Glazed stoneware
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Brie Ruais
Star Made by Punching the Sky (17)
Star Made by Punching the Sky (17), 2021
Glazed stoneware
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Brie Ruais
Nearly Torn Away
Nearly Torn Away, 2013
Glazed ceramic, hardware
