Jars for Oscar, Platters for Gizella 573 ̊ Virginia McClure Ceramics Biennale 2018 Biscuiterie Oscar — a magical cookie and candy store filled with stacks of colourful boxes, bulk bins of chocolate bars, biscuits, and sweets. Oscar, my mother’s self-avowed secret paramour, was our little secret. She insisted that our fatherought never know, “A woman doesn’t tell […]
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OH CERAMICS ! Esplanade Art Gallery, Medicine Hat, Alberta, canada, 2017 SQUARE THE PINE, CIRCLE THE SQUARE The term Square the Pine refers to planing the outer edges of a tree log in order to transform its rounded shape into a square beam. The expression to Square the Circle refers to an attempt to do something […]
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http://www.gardinermuseum.on.ca/pages/veronika-horlik PROUNS(SLASH), 2015 PROUNS(SLASH) is inspired by Canada’s reforestation landscapes and by the Japanese video game Katamari Damacy. The legend of Katamari Damacy tells the story of a young prince who attempts to reconstruct the stars and planets of the Universe, accidentally annihilated by his father the King of All Cosmos. To do this, the […]
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Veornika Horlik in interview with Xavier Lacroix, Radio Canada, Côte-Nord OR access the Radio Canada Côte-Nord archives AUDIO FILE HERE (2009-2013) In The Unbearable Lightness of Being, Milan Kundera writes: “The heaviest of burdens is an image of life’s most intense fulfillment. The heavier the burden, the closer our lives come to the earth and the […]
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For the exhibit BOXED-IN! January 26 – April 14, 2013 The Rooms Provincial Art Gallery and Craft Council of Newfoundland and Labrador Gallery. Trier avec le frère André / Sorting with Brother André (2012) This sorting box, inspired by a children’s game, pays tribute to Saint Brother André who recognized that all of life’s […]
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Offrandes / ExVoto exhibit Galerie du Viaduc, Montréal, 2009. ExVoto [èks. vo. to.] Du latin ex (à la suite de) et votum (voeu), donc: à la suite d’un vœu. D’une inspiration catholique, un geste votif en remerciement d’une grâce reçue ou de l’échange d’un bien matériel contre un désir. Le dépôt d’un tel objet est caractérisé par la création d’un lien sacralisé […]
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Lieux de mémoire, Biennale Internationale du Lin de Portneuf, Deschambault-Grondines, QC, 2009 La recherche de l’essence de vie ou d’un espoir qui se nourrit de souvenirs. Un champ de lin est piègé dans un hiver qui lui semble éternel, un moment fragmenté mais fixe, une existence immobilisé par la lourdeur du temps. Cet état est néanmoins […]
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Blanche-Cannelle, 2006 Inspired by my visits, as a young girl, to the Mother House of the Sisters of Notre-Dame with my mah. Blanche, my great aunt, was a nun who lived there. The sight, smell, and sweetness of those visits to see Blanche remain vivid in my memory: She gave me and my sister each […]
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