The exhibition Shapeshifters gathers sculptural and installation work created through the VISA-322 class. While each student had the freedom to develop their projects according to their own vision, several key themes have emerged.
First, the changing state of things – both as a subject and a process – recurs throughout the works. Concepts such as shifting identities, impermanence of form, fluctuating emotions, and cognitive struggle in an age of information are notions inspiring many pieces.
While an inquisitiveness in the impermanence of things appears central, material transformation is often expressed in these works through the exploitation of essential characteristics of matter.
Finally, the materialization of absence is a significant concern. How can we give form to the intangible? What shape does loss take, or touch between two people?
Samuel Roy-Bois
Associate Professor and VISA-322 instructor
Participants:
Austyn Bourget-White Rain Doody
Talia Gagnon Taylor Garvey
Hailey Gleboff Stephen Ikesaka
Madi May CJ Ozee
Stevie Poling Vana Robertson
Maya Taki Bernice Yam
Oskar Roughsedge
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