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Exhibition - Smother - by Suzanne Franks - Estevan Art Gallery - Feb 1st
The Estevan Art Gallery
Smother
Sculptures from Calgary-based Artist - Suzanne Franks
February 1st, 2010 - March 26th, 2010
Reception: February 1st | 7:00 - 9:00p
Real or imagined, we live in a dangerous world; the TV warns that disaster could be lurking around any corner and demands that we must protect ourselves and our families from these perceived threats. We need to assess how to negotiate process and exist amongst the chaos of images and information; to differentiate between the paranoia of contemporary society and managing risk.
Suzanne Franks is a Calgary-based artist of national acclaim, whose sculptures explore the issues intrinsic to parental anxiety in preparing our children to become world citizens while simultaneously trying to cloak them in protective armour. This armour must protect them physically and emotionally; what we pass onto our children is how they will ultimately see themselves and their effect in and on their world. How can you prepare someone for the small cruelties of childhood or the awkwardness of adolescence.
Franks sculptures is the product an inexhaustible extent of labour that manifests as multiples of banal objects and materials that come to form dynamic installations. Featured images depicts one aspect of the installation which features hundreds of orange “tent and awning fabric” teddy bears that come together to form a full-scale lifeboat.
“The daily filtering through of essential and non-essential information can be overwhelming and we find ourselves wanting to escape, to barricade at home, eat popcorn and watch movies, create a safe environment which will keep us sheltered, a place in which we have anticipated all mishaps and accidents.”
Curated by: Griffith Aaron Baker
The Estevan Art Gallery 118 - 4th Street | Estevan, SK | S4A 0T4
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Hours: Tuesday - Friday (8:30 - 6:00p) | Saturday (1:00 - 4:00p)
The Estevan Art Gallery is grateful for the support of the City of Estevan, Saskatchewan Arts Board, Sask Culture, Sask Lotteries, Museum Association of Saskatchewan, and Canadian Heritage.
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