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This group exhibition reflects the diversity of sculptural practices amongst Canadian artists whose work displays a fascination with the world around them. Drawing on sculpture’s history of incorporating objects found, duplicated, and manipulated, these artists make use of materials as a means of apprehending, mimicking, and animating elements of the real and perceived world. “What it Really Is” may be an object from the everyday, as in Reid’s ceramic replicas of broken teacups, or a vast, primordial form distilled through the artist’s imagination, as in Sciarrino’s abstracted paper stalactites. But in spite of the title’s evocation of a fixed representational identity—the copy’s allusion to the real—what we find instead is a series of shifting relationships between art and life. This is most strikingly apparent in Horton’s video, which depicts a series of consumer objects slowly unraveling at the seams and transforming into one another through the process of stop-motion animation. Here, materials turn inwards as much as outwards, revealing the desire to mimic both the outside world and the objects in their closest proximity.

Exhibition runs from January 27 to February 28, 2009

In addition to the exhibition, there will be a gallery walkthrough with curator Nicholas Brown and artists Kristan Horton and Kerri Reid at Red Bull 381 Projects on Saturday, February 14 at 3PM.