This exhibition proposes a timely rereading of postmodernism that moves beyond the period’s self-generated theories, stylistic commonplaces, and images.
Category Archives: Reviews
Constructing the Image of a Nation // The Site Magazine
Before Canada could be, it had to be imagined.
Exchange Centre // Canadian Architect
As a gateway building, Lazaridis Hall is dramatic yet effortless, distinguishing itself from its surroundings and creating visual openness with continuous glazing at grade.
Review: Architecture as Evidence/La preuve par l’Architecture // SEQUITUR
The fragments of this exhibition add up to an archive that attempts to answer a question: without the witness, how do we determine truth?
On Making Art that Makes Itself // The Community Edition
The ambiguity of nets, curtains, veils, drapes—means of concealing that can also reveal—permeates the large-scale works by Barbara Hobot on exhibit at the Kitchener-Waterloo Art Gallery (KWAG).
The Hambly House: Moderne Improvements // Canadian Architect
Nestled amongst the 1920s homes of a leafy neighbourhood in Hamilton, Hambly House seems to sail past the half-timbering, faux-stone cladding, and steeply pitched roofs of its neighbours.
Review: Shirin Neshat: Soliloquy // C Magazine
Viewers become mediators, with the series of scenes on each screen flowing not past, but through this audience – asking them to act as witnesses to the visual dialogue.
