EXHIBITION JANUARY 10 TO FEBRUARY 15, 2020

ARTIST TALK SATURDAY, JANUARY 25, 3PM

A flywheel of dualities —Spirit/Matter – Body/Soul – Breath/Death—Bonnie Baxter’s Spirit Matter asks you to pause for a sensory-based proposal. Divergent mediums and technologies tug at our primal responses: a looming rat/man figure flooded with de-naturing light pushes against a wall—pricking at our phobias like the smell of a hospital. Passage through a small portal brings you to a 360° continuum of great loping wolfhounds—embodiments of body, coursing in endless circles. Their desire for life is like ouroboros: inevitable, compelling, frightening, joyous. Above, chimeric angels hover—an aurora of synapses firing. Together the elements form both an intoxicating diorama of Gaia and an artist’s rendering of the cerebrum. (…)

Centre d’art et de diffusion CLARK

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Hours

GALLERY / Tuesday – Saturday 12PM to 5PM

I would like to thank the invaluable contributions of

Tommy Asselin – Digital Conception, Florence-Ariel Tremblay, Corinne Beaumier, Michel Beaudry, Mathilde Rohr, Alix Dufresne, Alana Riley, Shawn Davis (HOAR) – Mural, Treva Petch, Jon Yu, Camille Charbonneau, Stephane Claude – Sound Design, Andrea-Jane Cornell – InterTone drone, Julie McInnes – Cello Drone, Centre CLARK & Atelier CLARK, Christine Unger -Text, Musée d’art contemporain des Laurentides (MAC LAU), Musée d’art de Joliette (MAJ), Concordia University Part-Time Faculty Professional Development (CUPFA), Donna Tomson Castlekeep, Guylaine Gagnon

and all the furry beasts