Patel brown | 21 Wade Ave

Artifacts of the Horizon, Part one: rising from place

September 25 - October 30 2021

Native Art Department International, Shuvinai Ashoona, Jeffrey Gibson, Luis Jacob, Oreka James,
Charmaine Lurch, Oluseye, Lido Pimienta, Tim Pitsiulak, Curtis Santiago, Marigold Santos, Howie Tsui,
Kendra Yee, Shaheer Zazai

Artifacts of the Horizon works to replace possible futures with the frontier of the present, transcending identified categorizations and emphasizing the collective viewpoint and way forward through a variety of unique perspectives and the objects that reflect them.

The exhibition is presented in two parts; exploring a confluence of narratives, the space that surrounds them, and what results from bringing together works by twenty Canadian and International artists working with diverse ideas and media.

Part One: Rising from Place | Sept 25 - Oct 30
Part Two: Setting into Space | Nov 5 - Dec 23

How do we shift from limited self-centered and short-sighted reactions of domination and competition to more deliberate and congenial, mutually successful and natural ways of being with ourselves and one another?

Consistently returning to the innately reflective, healing, and transformative potential of art and our experiences of it, the exhibition asks us to consider our attitudes around believing, reprieving, and ultimately conceiving of where we are at. The powerful magic of our attention and imaginative reinvention of deciding to look at something differently and engaging accordingly - beyond our conditioned, indoctrinated, and embodied viewpoints to something greater, shared, and constant - the horizon.

The artworks are a reminder of the fluidity of experience that lies beyond our rigid conceptions. Art is a living philosophy, a spiritual meaning-making technology that can be used to discover the archeology of identity and unearth the universal beyond. This communing of artifact and entity has been practised by many cultures towards elevated states of consciousness, insight, and awareness. We must challenge and recreate our own understandings of otherness, change, and enlightenment as well as their associated aesthetics and vocabulary so that we may see, hear, and live more from our shared vision for the world.