Vancouver\, BC – grunt galle ry presents a new exhibition entitled "Sausage Factory" by artists Weronika Stepien and Stephen Wichuk.
The opening night reception will be held Thursday\, February 25\, 2016 from 7:00 – 10:00 pm. This is a free admission event. Beer\, wine\, and non-alcoholic drinks will be available for sale at our cash only bar.
Weronika Stepien and Stephen Wichuk examine the operations of food production and how this activity has been represented in literature\, industrial films\, and popular cinema. A selection of related movement images are disassembled and their various mot ivations and structural components reconstituted to produce a series of new video works.
In one instance\, a set of inexpensive consumer goods h
aunted by physical\, mimetic and mythic affinities to sausage making are su
mmoned\, to reenact a centuries old sight-gag. In another\, movements captu
red in a tradition of scientific management are pushed through the tedious
yet fantastical mill of cel animation.
The resultant images collapse h
istorical time with the time of production\, and in so doing reveal uncanny
movements of capital and desire.
The exhibition will remain on displ ay until April 2\, 2016 during gallery hours (Tuesday – Saturday\, noon – 5 :00 pm).
ARTIST BIO
Weronika Stepien is a Poli sh-American interdisciplinary artist who graduated from Emily Carr Universi ty’s Film and Video + Integrated Media program in 2009. In 2007 she studied audio visual art at the Gerrit Rietveld Academie in Amsterdam. Her artwork incorporates forms of visual storytelling\, psychology and experiments in shape and movement. Her work has been exhibited in Chicago\, Germany\, Sing apore\, and Vancouver. She has been teaching animation to children and yout h since 2008.
Stephen Wichuk is an animator and arts educator born in Edmonton\, Alberta. He received a Bachelor of Media Arts at the Emily Carr Institute in 2005 and a an MFA from the University of British Columbia in 2013. His works have been exhibited and screened at the Morris and Helen Be lkin Art Gallery (2013)\, Little Mountain Studios (2012)\, Cineworks Indepe ndent Filmmakers Society (2010) and VIVO Media Arts (2008). He has taught a nimation principles to people of all ages through Arts Umbrella\, Reel2Real \, VSB\, Cineworks\, Emily Carr\, and the Purple Thistl
Curated by Ta rah Hogue and Vanessa Kwan.
Image: Stephen Wichuk\, Sausage Machi ne\, 2016. Single channel digital video.
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