Gallery 310

Gallery 310 explores the relationship between the photograph and the reality it represents. In this installation I photographed specific areas of Gallery 310, located in the Image Arts Building, of Toronto Metropolitan University - the ‘floor’, the ‘wall’, where the ‘floor meets the wall’, the corner where ‘two walls meet the floor’, the ‘top of a plinth by the wall’, and the ‘foot of a bench on the floor’, etc. I then printed, mounted, cropped and installed the photographs in the very areas that they represent, creating a complex entanglement of photographic subject (reality represented), photographic object (material object) and photographic representation (image). In order to index the specificity of the space and time of the photography, I included incidental details such as nails, fixtures, and an extension cord, in the photographs. While they were obscured to different degrees by the placement of the photographs, these elements were present in the space and time of the final presentation. This installation is titled Gallery 310 because, in a sense, it ‘is’ Gallery 310.

(2019)