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
"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)