| Jennifer Chan, Adrienne Crossman, Lorna Mills, Jacqueline Mabey | September 11 – October 31, 2015 |
| Curated by Jacqueline Mabe |
All three artists appropriate images from popular culture and through their isolation and repetition, transform the arsenal of rehearsed, gendered poses of romance, suggesting other modalities of being.
Jennifer Chan’s P.A.U.L. (2013) draws mainly from yaoi, or Boy’s Love genre of anime. Remixed with dance music and the description of an ideal date, the work plums the mobility of desire. Adrienne Crossman’s Workout Series (2013) is sourced from exercise videos, cultural products intended to make bodies conform to gender-normative models of attractiveness. In a gesture of liberation, she transforms these bodied into fantastic, pan-sexual entities. Lorna Mills gathers together similar gestures; here, tongues and licking. Their isolation and preponderance, set in the infinite loop of the animated .gif, makes them darkly absurd.
In collaboration with InterAccess, G Gallery will host an exhibition tour and .gif-making workshop. Curators Amber Christensen (InterAccess) and Jacqueline Mabey/failed projects (G Gallery), alongside Ella Dawn McGeough and Daniella Sanader, will co-facilitate a discussion about the connections between two neighbouring Ossington Street exhibitions: There Should Be Gardens at InterAccess and Carnival of Sorts at G Gallery. We will meet at InterAccess at 1:30 p.m. and proceed to G Gallery at 2:15 p.m. to discuss queer/feminist politics and new media practices in relation to the artists’ work and curatorial strategies at both spaces. After the discussion at G Gallery, we will return to InterAccess at 3 p.m., where artist Adrienne Crossman will lead a casual and collaborative .gif-making workshop. Please bring your own laptop with Photoshop, or laptops to share will be available.
