Jan­nick Deslau­ri­ers is cur­rently exhibit­ing at Show & Tell Gallery in Toronto. The instal­la­tions are con­cep­tu­ally chal­leng­ing and visu­ally stim­u­lat­ing. If you find your­self in Toronto, stop by the show which runs until Novem­ber 20^th.

The gallery shares; “Deslau­ri­ers is con­cerned with the col­lu­sion between human nature and art — a frag­ile con­ver­sa­tion that has been whis­pered, spo­ken, and ulti­mately shouted over the course of art’s his­tory. Employ­ing a mass of translu­cent fab­ric and dark col­ored thread, the artist’s lat­est real­iza­tion of this com­plex and, at times, frag­ile rela­tion­ship is cap­tured in a group of sculp­tural instal­la­tions. Cen­tered upon a large fab­ric sculp­ture of a mil­i­tary tank, the exhi­bi­tion demon­strates how binary oppo­si­tion has become the frame­work of our daily exis­tence. The mas­sive and sub­lime nature of a textile-​crafted war machine are imposed upon view­ers while the ephemeral tem­pera­ment of the mate­ri­als used is a reminder of strength, mem­ory, and life dis­solved. The artist con­sid­ers her sculp­tures to be 3-​dimensional draw­ings, evok­ing the grav­ity and sever­ity of the line. In doing so, Deslau­ri­ers suc­cess­fully ren­ders man’s cre­ations — tanks and hand grenades along with mun­dane objects like type writ­ers and sewing machines — as estranged objects. In their hol­low tex­tile form, these appari­tions exude an alarm­ing beauty that is over­looked in life’s daily contexts.

What’s Left? is a body of work that presents a pur­pose­fully dis­lo­cated per­spec­tive on the his­tory in which humankind has par­tic­i­pated by acknowl­edg­ing the arti­facts and inven­tions we leave in our wake. Humil­ity is com­mu­ni­cated through a medium that can be ren­dered com­pact and minute in the aritst’s hands while stand­ing as a metaphor in its sculp­tural form for the quixotic and ten­u­ous nature of life itself. Deslau­ri­ers asks her view­ers to con­sider what remains of beauty, respect, fear, and hope in our con­tem­po­rary era.”

Jan­nick Deslau­ri­ers was born in 1983 in Joli­ette, Que­bec. She has a BA in Visual Arts from Con­cor­dia Uni­ver­sity. In addi­tion to her own stu­dio prac­tice she teaches visual arts at Marie-​Victorin Col­lege in Mon­tréal. You can catch more of her work here: www​.jan​nick​deslau​ri​ers​.com.

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