October 3, 2009, 6:55 pm to sunrise: Things Fall Apart

On October 3, 2009, Blackcurrant Productions and Laluque Atelier Gallery will present Things Fall Apart, a one-night only Scotiabank Nuit Blanche exhibit in the St. Clair West neighbourhood. Above, a postcard for the show, featuring the arresting image of Farmhouse at Bexley, Victoria County by photographer and ghost town researcher Susan Foster.

Things Fall Apart arises from my curiosity about how artists attend to and depict destruction. And thus, this collage of works that faint and fall, congeal and dissolve, rend, crumple, and implode. With a wide emotional range, the works pose questions about what the essence of a thing is. How much can a thing fall apart before it ceases to be itself, before - as Yeats put it - 'its center cannot hold'? The works also invite questions about the nature of spaces into which things fall.

But, that's getting technical...

If you'd like to see a medley of film, jewellery, collage, sculpture, and theatre designs...with food icons congealing, an inked Japanese word running under a tap, a fainting goat giving a blessing, and the only duck of the night to crash into a dinner plate, then this is the exhibit for you!

In addition to Susan's photo, you'll also see works by Melissa Dalton, Michelle Johnson, Sarah Lochhead, Jamie McMillan, Margaret Nieradka, Taibe Palacios, Graham Porter, and Annie Tung, with my (Kathy Bischoping's) curation and the contributions of gallery owner Natalia Laluque. 

For more information, including a full curator's statement and directions to Laluque Atelier Gallery, at 1362 Bathurst St., click here.

Last but not least, if you come round to our St. Clair West neighbourhood, you'll find a constellation of eight other Scotiabank Nuit Blanche projects and a TTC station that's open all night! (To the right, the Constellation St. Clair poster, designed by Laluque Atelier Gallery.) Click here to find out more.

Scotiabank Nuit Blanche is a signature event produced by the City of Toronto.