| Miruna Dragan | October 17 – November 15, 2014 |
| Organized by Sarah Cale |
Shadows Mirror Shadows brings together new lens-based works of mountain and subterranean landscapes. Including a large double-sided standing lightbox, photographs on metallic paper, a projected photomontage, and a large drawing on photograph, these works respond to Pavel Florensky’s theories of the plane that both divides and unifies dualistic realms of the material and immaterial, as ‘ontological mirror images’. In imagining the permeability of rock walls through manipulations of photography and light, Dragan’s works evoke Florensky’s notions of piercing the plane, ‘turning’ time and bodies ‘inside out’. Her use of color as materialized light that acts upon us, is just one example of Dragan’s use of a perspectival reversal that overturns the dominance of the anthropocentric viewer, invoking a transcendent experience of the real as holistic unification of both sides of the plane.
Miruna Dragan was born in Bucharest, grew up in New York and Los Angeles, and was largely itinerant before moving to Calgary in 2009.Her site-responsive work reflects themes of dispersion and transcendence through photography, drawing, collage, montage, fresco, and temporary interventions. Her works have been shown in national and international venues, including recent exhibitions at Museo de la Ciudad in Queretaro, Mexico (2009 & 2012), the Calgary Biennial (2012), the Esker Foundation, Calgary (2013), the Alberta Biennial (2013), Integral House, Toronto and The Tetley in Leeds, UK (2014). This is her first solo exhibition in Toronto.
