The Or Gallery is pleased to present Things’ Matter\, a group exhibition curated by CCST candidate Klara Manhal featuring works by Kika Thorne\, Heather Pas smore\, Michael Drebert and Jen Weih.
Accompanying Talk with artist K ika Thorne and political theorist Dr. Laura Janara: December 11th\, 7pm.
Things’ Matter is an exhibition of contemporary art that draws on the c oncept of objecthood and thingness. Each artwork is invested in exploring the affecting nature of its material makeup and challenges the viewer to co nsider how inanimate things might be thought of as imbued with a vitality o r life force. In a series of prints utilizing ink made of plant matter and illustrating theoretical grids of light bending\, Kika Thorne explores how plant matter responds to the manipulation of being used as ink to describe its own photosynthetic processes. Heather Passmore makes paintings from ra w milk paint\, hand made by the artist. Passmore’s interest is in the medi cinal and nutritional properties of raw milk and the politics surrounding i ts designation as an illegal substance in Canada. Jen Weih and Michael Dreb ert are less oriented toward the material and instead explore the thing’s c apacity to seduce and the effective potential that the human desire for thi ngs has on human behaviour. In a gestural work\, Drebert uses his own body to transport a fisherman’s glass floater from Haida Gwaii back to its plac e of origin in Kamakura\, Japan. While objects aren’t normally thought of a s having desires and needs\, Drebert assumes the ball’s yearning to return home and uses himself as a carrier and witness in this service. For Thing’ s Matter Jen Weih has made an animation using fragmented things pulled from the internet. Weih’s is an experiment in animating and anthropomorphizing these otherwise inanimate things that are the detritus of cultural product ion\, human desire and need.
Kika Thorne is an artis t\, filmmaker and curator currently working towards her PhD in visual art a t York University\, Toronto. Kika Thorne received her MFA from the Univers ity of Victoria\, BC and has exhibited extensively including projects at Be rlinale Forum Expanded\, Berlin\; Murray Guy\, New York\; The Apartment\, A ccess\, Contemporary Art Gallery and Vancouver Art Gallery\, Vancouver\; Pl easure Dome\, the Power Plant and G Gallery\,Toronto\, and recently at the Art Gallery of Windsor. Her work was also included in E-Flux Video Rental which toured the globe for five years.
Vancouver based artist Heather Passmore obtained an MFA from the University of British C olumbia in 2004. For the past ten years she has exhibited extensively in so lo and group exhibitions across Canada and internationally. She conducts fr equent artist talks and has published critical essays\, and reviews. Heathe r has engaged in a number of international artist residencies and local com munity art projects. Her work was recently acquired by the Vancouver Art Ga llery and is held in a number of other private and public collections.
< p>Michael Drebert currently lives and works in Vancouver. He holds a BFA from Emily Carr Institute of Art and Design and an MFA from The University of Victoria. Michael’s work has been included in exhibition s at the Helen Pitt Gallery\, Western Front Gallery\, Lobby Gallery\, The C ontemporary Art Gallery and Blanket Gallery\, among others.J en Weih is a multi-media artist and sessional instructor at the Em ily Carr Institute of Art and Design. Jen graduated with an MFA from the Un iversity of British Columbia in 2006 and since has been exhibited nationall y and internationally. In 2006 her design was chosen for the Art Underfoot : Sanitary Sewer Cover\, public art project.
This exhibition is m ade possible through support from the Killy Foundation and the Audain Endow ment for Curatorial Studies through the Department of Art History\, Visual Art and Theory in collaboration with the Morris and Helen Belkin Art Galler y at The University of British Columbia.
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