Model Dome - Laura St.Pierre

Laura St.Pierre is exhibiting a series of works that use waste to explore the absurdity and contradictions of Western materialism and excess.  St.Pierre’s photographs, drawings and installations draw from the languages of vernacular and visionary architecture, interior design, and abstraction.  The site-specific installation St.Pierre has created  for the vitrines is comprised largely of materials culled from Concordia’s waste management facility, while her photographic works document a series of small dwellings installed on the edge of the St. Lawrence River in 2007.

Residual Geoscapes- Griffith Aaron Baker

Residual Geoscapes presents a wall-sized assemblage of common plastic discards blanketed with successive layers of deconstructed waste paper.  The objects not only grow, but mutate in form and color as a result of the accumulative process of applying paper.  The philosophical and aesthetic dimension of this unpredictable and ultimately uncontrollable process allows the materials’ state of existence and the state of our existence in relation to these materials to be considered without the contextual constraints of the objects brand or function.  This intensive process of collection, arrangement, and the systematic hybridization of materials, spawns a fascinating, but inevitably hetero-referential object, as the metaphysical existence of any terrestrial substance can be the equivalent to any other.