Raw Material
Ilana Divantman, Elizabeth Weigand
June 3 - July 15, 2005


Installation View

Elizabeth Weigand
I am interested in the ways artistic practice mediates my experience of the world. For Raw Material, my work focuses on the physical and psychological processes through which material percolates to become art. Scrap metal is recontextualized as treasure, on display in jewellery cases, while a silkscreen print is broken down to its component parts. There’s nothing to be afraid of here; you only think it’s art.

Ilana Divantman
I have always enjoyed watching people in different social spaces. The Toronto subways, the Kingston train station, and the odd coffee shops here and there were my spaces of inspiration for these paintings. In these spaces I found examples of a moment in time that does not translate into words easily but can be understood visually. It is an inwardness, a moment of consciousness that is visible in the way a person relaxes his jaw or widens his eyes before having to adjusts his facial mannerisms to suit his surrounding. The raw material is thus the unexplained moment that is understood through experience. In my paintings I share these moments so as to evoke questions about social spaces and our roles in them.