Artists: Ida Badal, Jesse Chapman, Nathan Ellefson, Rochelle Goldberg, Alina Tenser, Eric Veit, Andrew Norman Wilson
Exhibition title: FEELING OF DREAD
Curated by: Woobie Bogus and John-Elio Reitman
Venue: Parisian Laundry, Montréal, Canada
Date: October 29 – November 28, 2015
Photography: images copyright and courtesy of the artists and Parisian Laundry, Montréal
Note: Exhibition text can be found here
The works of eight artists come together to imagine a nonpartisan post-apocalyptic perspective, or in part, the impacts of a post-human bunker. Inside the space is a preserved archive, organic and fabricated, after escaping the whatever whichever and actively evolving and adjusting to the environment. Plants mutate and prosper, transcending subservient roles as food and decor. Furniture objects, appliances, architecture and fixtures develop desire and ignore their convenient purposes. The room itself is living and dying, blissfully unaware of how it got there and what it might be expected to do.
The show finds its footing in the differences between Science Fiction and Fantasy; projections of the future vs. make believe from another reality. Feeling of Dread is a flexible approach to the science fiction reality of an object in a room, the fantasy of an idea that can prove anything, and the opportunity to understand these works as both genres.
Featuring works by Ida Badal, Jesse Chapman, Nathan Ellefson, Rochelle Goldberg, Alina Tenser, Eric Veit, and Andrew Norman Wilson.
Andrew Norman Wilson, The Unthinkable Bygone, 2015
Alina Tenser, Personal Care Pod III, 2015
Ida Badal, M or W, 2015
Jesse Chapman, The Arch, 2015
Alina Tenser, Personal Care Pod I, 2015, Personal Care Pod II, 2015
Miljohn Ruperto & Ulrik Heltoft, Voynich Botanical Studies, Specimen 90v Podzim, 2013
Miljohn Ruperto & Ulrik Heltoft, Voynich Botanical Studies, Specimen 90v Zima, 2013
Eric Veit, Variety Is The Soul Of Pleasure, 2015
Alina Tenser, Teaching Tools, 2013
Rochelle Goldberg, Untitled, 2015
Jesse Chapman, The Window, 2015
Nathan Ellefson, Floor Cure Energy Situation, 2015
Ida Badal, Sky Lake, 2015
Nathan Ellefson, Brash Hanger Looking Unit, 2015
Ida Badal, Scum Sections, 2015
Jesse Chapman, The Periscopes, 2015