Upcoming Exhibitions

Bring Our Curses Home
September 18, 2012 – October 7, 2010

Munazza Naeem
October 2 – November 14, 2010

Seasons of Mist and Mellow Fruitfulness: Group of Seven Works from the AGW Permanent Collection
September 11, 2010 – January 2, 2011

David Merritt: Shim Sham Shimmy
November 20, 2010 – January 16, 2011

Rae Davis
November 20, 2010 – January 16, 2011

Lucie Simons
November 20, 2010 – January 30, 2011

Shirley Williams
December 4, 2010 – February 6, 2011

Sky Glabush
December 18, 2010 – March 6, 2011

Bring Our Curses Home

September 18, 2012 – October 7, 2010

Bring Our Curses Home deals with aspects of disenfranchisement, alienation and consumption that characterize suburban youth culture in many parts of the world. Down, Poolman and Tkaczyk investigate similar themes of rebellion, aggressive posturing and the often violent rejection of stultifying cultural norms. For example, the attraction of Death Metal music, according to Poolman "is its ideological dissent from and destruction of the status quo, its embracement of ‘otherness', and its utter rejection of all music and thought that came before it". Similarly, Tkaczyk subtitles his series of digital drawings of conveniences hidden in switchblade handles "Weapons for Everyday Life", implying the need to arm oneself with objects and ideas in order to survive in an increasingly hostile world. Using images of mosh pits, mud bogging and roller derbies, Down explores practices which release violent and erotic energy in ecstatic, anti-social, anti-productive activities, a resistance to ‘usefulness' which is potentially subversive of our culture's current means-end rationalism.

Curated by Mandy Salter