CURATORIAL TOUR | ANNE LOW | VIRTUAL
January 31 | 2 - 3 PM
FREE | with artist Anne Low
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Join Anne Low for an online conversation with Courtney Faulkner, SAAG’s Public Engagement & Event Coordinator, about Low’s current exhibition, FIGURE LIKE HEARSE, on view at the SAAG.
Seeing the transition of material into another state of being, Anne Low has created a series of commemorative new works which anticipate the various in-between states that a work inhabits, as a part of its making: coming into form, storage, transportation, rest. Many of the works will travel packed inside another, where the container for the artworks is also hand made while carefully considered as an equivalent form, stuffed with hay and handwoven fabric salvage. Upon the conclusion of a crating structures’ necessary duty, rather than becoming excluded from its utilitarian function, these containers will be then utilized as the platforms for, and around, the work as a part of the exhibition. In this way, there is no separation from the skilled handcrafting by bodies from the structures which carry, support, and unveil an artwork in readiness for its intended public life. The physical structures which connect and protect are conditional and have an equivalent set of conditions in the creation of their form, from design to production, for the supported interior body of work to be able to live and perform.
At a time when we can see how small and simple salvage fabrics can filter unseen viral and microscopic bacteria, which can otherwise cause devastating impacts on human and associated systems of survival, it becomes clear how modest gestures of care can protect an invisible mass. It is a material indication of how easily supply chains of transport from packaging are linked to the hands that hold and move every object required in our quotidian spaces; how essential a seed is and the equivalent attention necessary to protect the elements that feed it. This collection of new work is a lament for an awareness of our finite embodiment, and our co-dependency within the necessary structures of care which connect us.
Anne Low's practice engages with sculpture, installation, textiles and printmaking to investigate how particular expressive forms are able to unhinge themselves from historical contingency and speak to contemporary subjects such as the domestic, the decorative, utility and taste. Her work speaks to wider narratives around the impulse to individuate object and self and how the impulse to decorate is a desire that extends through history and is expressed onto the planes and surfaces of domestic interiors and objects.
This event is hosted online over zoom. Please email info@saag.ca to register.