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| In Between the overall curatorial title of the 2009 hopes to address the changing nature of our relations to land, “landscape. The idea of landscape/wilderness is largely a 19th century romantic notion, that bears no relationship to spaces outside of urban centres, north of the imaginary line between rural, wilderness and land-scape. But the space between urban/rural/wilderness is fast disappearing, while the mythology remains. For the 2009 exhibition “In Between”, Dyan Marie and Ed Pien are using the Muskoka landscape to explore the spaces/places in between the physical, perceptual and imagined. | ||
2009 Exhibition |
Curated by EJ Lightman and Anne O'Callaghan |
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Dyan Marie
Dyan Marie’s work "Experience Canada: Canadian Experience" explores the idea of immigration fostered by the allure of the imagined Canadian landscape. Silhouettes of inner city shop owners, posed in front of their storefronts, are in-filled with forest and lake landscapes. These city/forest – forest/city image exchanges are installed as billboards in the pastoral and forest settings of The Tree Museum and as hanging street light banners along Bloor Street near Lansdowne Ave. in Toronto”. |
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Ed Pien
“In my installations I am interested in how the viewers embody and negotiate their way through a given space. The Tree Museum’s natural environment offers and incredible opportunity to realize an installation that will allow me to complicate a give site using optical play. |
The Tree Museum Collective gratefully acknowledges the support of The Canada Council for the Arts & the Ontario Arts Council. |
