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Fatimah Tuggar
Spinner and the Spindle: Tuning Meaning & Threading Ideas
April 5 to May 3 (Capture Photo Festival Select Exhibitions)
We will be closed on Good Friday
but open on Saturday 11-4pm
Coverfield, 2008, Computer Montage, Inkjet , Edition 2/3 109 x 71 cm / 43 x 28 inches
Spinner and the Spindle exhibits a sampling of computer montages by Fatimah Tuggar from the 1990s and an augmented reality diptych from 2019. The exhibition also features "Broom," a sculptural object with an electronic embedded sound, demonstrating her collage and bricolage consistency in all mediums.
Interdisciplinary artist Tuggar, a pioneer of digital media, combines her photographs and found images from multiple histories, geographies, and cultures to closely examine societal nuances. She recontextualises: exploring, documenting and reimagining what connects us and separates us, as well as the spaces within us and around us. As put by ARTBYTE in 1998, "It seems a radical shift from the social space of Madame Yevonde in 1930s London to that of Fatimah Tuggar." In both her computer montages and video collages, meaning is located between the combined elements, with a focus on the internal relationships of the individuals within the image, tempered by the surrounding power structures.
Tuggar combines images, perspectives, characters, contexts and personas in a provocative and respectful practice of engaging ideas and viewers in an ongoing dialogue. The thematic threads of her visual conversations with us interconnects the factual and fictional; with the intention of implicating us. We are both audiences and agents in things as they have been, global society as it is, and the world as it could be. The images in this show highlight her continuous paradoxical uses of humour, reverence, fragility and complexity, which are consistent as connecting energies regardless of the medium or methods she's working in. Even these early static images are also spaces of dynamic unfolding reflection, just like the more recent AR (Augmented Reality) images and immersive installations. Continue reading HERE
Interdisciplinary artist Tuggar, a pioneer of digital media, combines her photographs and found images from multiple histories, geographies, and cultures to closely examine societal nuances. She recontextualises: exploring, documenting and reimagining what connects us and separates us, as well as the spaces within us and around us. As put by ARTBYTE in 1998, "It seems a radical shift from the social space of Madame Yevonde in 1930s London to that of Fatimah Tuggar." In both her computer montages and video collages, meaning is located between the combined elements, with a focus on the internal relationships of the individuals within the image, tempered by the surrounding power structures.
Tuggar combines images, perspectives, characters, contexts and personas in a provocative and respectful practice of engaging ideas and viewers in an ongoing dialogue. The thematic threads of her visual conversations with us interconnects the factual and fictional; with the intention of implicating us. We are both audiences and agents in things as they have been, global society as it is, and the world as it could be. The images in this show highlight her continuous paradoxical uses of humour, reverence, fragility and complexity, which are consistent as connecting energies regardless of the medium or methods she's working in. Even these early static images are also spaces of dynamic unfolding reflection, just like the more recent AR (Augmented Reality) images and immersive installations. Continue reading HERE
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Mónica Reyes Gallery (MRG) has been supporting the growth and development of emerging, mid-career and established visual artists since 2013. While these artists are primarily based in western Canada, MRG’s reach extends to South America. Since its early days, MRG has been committed to exhibiting artists from the diaspora. The gallery showcases experimental approaches in various mediums such as painting, sculpture and textiles as well as media installations and billboards in public spaces. MRG often works with visual artists who employ abstraction to reflect on place in an unstable world.
MRG also initiated COMBINE Art Fair, an annual event since 2021 that is ongoing, and is the first art fair on the westcoast. Mónica Reyes Gallery is a driving force in the local art scene, recognized for its dynamic programming and social contributions. MRG takes pride in presenting a bold programme that is relevant and often challenging within a commercial context.
We respectfully acknowledge that we live and work on unceded, traditional and ancestral xʷməθkʷəy̓əm (Musqueam), Sḵwx̱wú7mesh Úxwumixw (Squamish), and səl̓ilw̓ətaʔɬ (Tsleil-Waututh) territories.
MRG also initiated COMBINE Art Fair, an annual event since 2021 that is ongoing, and is the first art fair on the westcoast. Mónica Reyes Gallery is a driving force in the local art scene, recognized for its dynamic programming and social contributions. MRG takes pride in presenting a bold programme that is relevant and often challenging within a commercial context.
We respectfully acknowledge that we live and work on unceded, traditional and ancestral xʷməθkʷəy̓əm (Musqueam), Sḵwx̱wú7mesh Úxwumixw (Squamish), and səl̓ilw̓ətaʔɬ (Tsleil-Waututh) territories.
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