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“Iris Häussler: Archivio Milano 1991” at Daniel Faria Gallery

Contemporary documentation shows Häussler, in residence at the Milano Poesia festival, bent over a line of trays, her large pot of wax on a hotplate. After the tablets cooled and set, she filed them loosely on industrial shelving from which viewers could easily pick them up and look at them.…
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Images Without End: Carlos Bunga’s at MOCA

(Texte) E.C Woodley
For a time, the three lived in a reception centre—now the Universidade Lusófona do Porto—which housed refugees from former Portuguese colonies. “Only later would I come to realize that our house, an unlocked cell, had once been a prison.” In 1983, a moderate amount of social housing was built for…
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The Time and Place of an Exhibition: Gina Rorai at Corkin Gallery

(Texte) E.C Woodley
I am alone here because this is the lockdown time of COVID-19, and the exhibition, Rorai’s Where One Finishes the Other Begins, has been carefully abandoned and absent of viewers for several weeks. Perhaps, on a fantastic, imaginative level, the many exhibitions left behind in this state across the…
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The Constellation of Hajra Waheed: Intimate Witness

(Texte) E.C Woodley
Constellation art, a neologism that plays on the longer-standing term “installation art,” has its origins in the German-Jewish critic Walter Benjamin’s ideas about time, history, and objects of knowledge. Less site-specific than an installation and more discrete in its often- disparate parts,…
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A Fortieth-Anniversary Exhibition at the Corkin Gallery in Toronto

(Texte) E.C Woodley
In a commercial gallery, an exhibition survives three or four weeks, but the longevity of the artworks it contains depends on materials, chance, and our collective will. The galleries themselves exist somewhere between the time of the exhibitions they stage and the time of the artworks they…
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The Motion of the Imagination: Leopold Plotek at the Corkin Gallery

(Texte) E.C Woodley
Of the fourteen paintings in the exhi­bition, most are of recent production but a few belong to earlier stages of the career of this Montreal éminence grise. Plotek has never worked in series; he strives to make each of his works unique, and this raises a rich challenge for curators mixing early…
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