Cycles of Entanglement
Cycles of Entanglement
2024 Art & Art History Graduating Students' Exhibition
Curated and organized by students in the course FAH451: Curating Now
Presented at the Blackwood Gallery and e|gallery, University of Toronto Mississauga
March 27–April 19, 2024
Opening Event: Wednesday, March 27, 2024
Time: 5-7pm
Location: Blackwood Gallery, University of Toronto Mississauga (Kaneff Centre room 140)
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Please join us for the opening reception of the Art & Art History graduating students’ exhibition, Cycles of Entanglement, on March 27, 2024 from 5 to 7pm at the Blackwood Gallery, University of Toronto Mississauga. The exhibition will present recent works by students from the 2024 graduating class of the joint Sheridan College and University of Toronto Mississauga Art & Art History program.
Featuring works by: Yike Chen, Isa Ding, Rebecca Hailu, Sabeel Khaliq, Joanna Konopka, Diana Lawryshyn, Jingmei Liu, Catherine Luu, Lore McKeown, Dania Murad, Hiba Tun-Noor, Dee Verma, Yifan Zhang
Curated by FAH451: Curating Now students: Malak Aboelsaoud, Gani Cabezas, Bushra Din, Yixuan Dong, Lourdes Duah, Ximena De La Garza, Joanna Konopka, Jingmei Liu, Manal Shakeel, Carter Toole, Kaiyuan Yan, Jiashan Yu
Cycles of Entanglement is a group exhibition presenting recent works by students from the 2024 graduating class of the University of Toronto Mississauga and Sheridan College joint Art & Art History program. Curated by the students of FAH451: Curating Now, the exhibition features paintings, photographs, sculptures, and prints. Together, the works in this exhibition engage with the repetition and contrast among the patterns inherent in our lives and surroundings, as well as our physical and emotional selves that result from our actions and choices.
Our worlds are thoroughly connected, resulting in an entanglement with one another. Sometimes, the connections are apparent, such as the cycle of life and death. Other cycles perhaps are less so, such as objects that move through cycles of consumption, sustained by desires for progress. The human body, too, is moving through a series of emotions as it passes through days, weeks, months, and years. Across the artworks, several artists reflect on themes of death, anxiety, and pain, while others create work that reveals autobiographical details, such as their hobbies and interests. Some artists in this exhibition explore the impact of certain emotional periods that have changed the course of their lives. These resonances reveal processes of healing, which some artists understand through material exploration, just as others consider the human impact of the passage of time on natural systems. In this exhibition, the theme of repetition is reflected in the process of art making as well as the subjects that the artists choose to explore.
How can we be more responsible to one other? How can we be better aware of the consequences and influences of our actions? This exhibition invites reflections on cycles in our lives and to consider how our own choices and actions entangle us, realizing that no action is isolated, no matter how big or small it may be. Through this exhibition, we hope visitors will come to realize that part of human nature is living with changes, accepting that patterns may recur and cycles will continue to transform us as we grow.
Public Programs
Layers of History Workshop with Adam Albini and Joanna Konopka
April 3, 12-1:30pm
Kaneff Centre
University of Toronto Mississauga
Artist Talk & Tour with Diana Lawryshyn and Hiba Tun-Noor
April 10, 12-1:30pm
Blackwood Gallery, Kaneff Centre Room 140
e|gallery, CCT Building
University of Toronto Mississauga
For more information, visit The Blackwood's website
and @cyclesofentanglement on Instagram.
Acknowledgments
The Art & Art History graduating students’ exhibition is created in partial fulfillment of FAH451: Curating Now: Turning Concepts into Curatorial Projects, taught by Sarah Robayo Sheridan. This course is a part of the Curatorial Studies Certificate program in the Department of Visual Studies at the University of Toronto Mississauga.
Students graduating from the Art and Art History program receive both an Honours Bachelor of Arts from the University of Toronto Mississauga and a Diploma in Art and Art History from Sheridan Institute of Technology and Advanced Learning. The program is designed to provide students with a strong and diverse base of knowledge that prepares them for a broad spectrum of careers within the arts community and beyond. Alumni have pursued careers in teaching, both at the primary, secondary, and post-secondary levels, while others go on to earn their Masters in Studio Art or Art History. For more information, please visit the Art & Art History program website.
Additional support for the Art & Art History graduating students' exhibition is provided by U of T’s affinity partners Manulife and TD Insurance, and by the Experiential Education Unit, Office of the Dean, University of Toronto Mississauga.
