Ocular Occurrences

 

Sept. 15 2024 to Jan. 15 2025

113Research, 113 McCaul Street, 5th floor

Monday-Friday 10-6PM

Opening Reception September 30 4.30-6 PM 


Pam Patterson & Mel Rapp
"Ocular Occurrences" as exhibition, displays, in the vitrines, digital colour prints (that use eye scans, photographs, and topographical maps) overlayed with Amsler grids, designed to engage the viewer with how Patterson sees and processes images. What, she asks, is the disconnect between medical models and subjective experience? What can a body do to…? The seeming ineffectiveness of this exercise in locating sight is expressed in the accompanying video, Sites of Perception.

Optician, designer and writer Mel Rapp exercises his theory of the intersection of observation, memory, and language by responding, in the vitrine, in writing to Patterson’s ironic images. In the two facing photos in the annex lounge, one sees closeup Patterson’s eye framed by one of Rapp’s iconic glassware designs.

Here futility is recovered, redesigned, and transformed.

(Photo 2024 by Pam Patterson -- glasses frames by Mel Rapp -- photo-satin-paper,  3 feet X 5 feet)

Thanks to the Ontario Art's Council and Province of Ontario and the Toronto Arts Council and City of Toronto for funding support for this exhibition.




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