Cheryl Pagurek

An expanded version of the Fragile exhibit is now showing at Ottawa’s City Hall Art Gallery, including new photographs from the Tea Cups series, and all three videos in the series, Yellow tea cup: refugees at sea, Green tea cup: collectivities, and White saucer: surveillant eye. Vernissage: Thursday, October 11, 2018, 5:30 to 7:30 pm. Q&A with the artist: Sunday, November 18, 2018, 2 pm.

Exhibition statement: Videos and photographs from the Tea Cups series explore the tenuous state of current world affairs. Made by projecting contemporary global news imagery into delicate vintage tea cups, these works evoke our own human fragility, the shattering of fragile notions of peace and social democracy, and the vulnerability of the earth itself to natural disaster, all while bringing worldwide events ‘closer to home’.

Exhibition catalogue with essay by Marc Mercier, director of Festival Les Instants Vidéo Numériques et Poétiques 

Read review on Artsfile online or as PDF 

Listen to CKCU interview about the exhibit

City Hall Art Gallery

See individual works in the exhibit

I gratefully acknowledge Exhibition Assistance funding support from the Ontario Arts Council, an agency of the Government of Ontario

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

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