DENIS FARLEY - DISPLACEMENTS SERIES

The content of this work touches upon the relation between the individual and their presence in a contemporary architectural environment. He integrates individuals in strategic locations and links them between volume, space and building materials involved.
Through simple techniques of juxtapositions and combining images, the spectator is brought to question their own cultural and emotive references. The reflective qualities of water and glass panels, for example, act as visual triggers stimulating the passage from physical to mental states. The quasi-symmetry of the structures along with the body language, are closely united in a meditative choreography. A direct outcome of those choreographed ''actions'' lead to perceptions of institutional values associated with architecture evokes reflective states within the individuals while they review their memory of nature.



Denis Farley, Cimetière, 2007

SARAH CIURYSEK - FARM WORKS

Sarah Ciurysek is a Graduate Student in Concordia University's Photography Program. Although much of her artwork is photography and video it also highlights the artform of storytelling. The rural context of her videos remind the viewer that oral traditions are strongly associated with rural culture, combining history, knowledge, humour and a connection to the land. Through this series of videos the artist explores her own relationship to the rural tradition, the family farm, her life as a city dweller and the multiple readings of the land.




Sarah Ciurysek, Driving Home, 2005