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September 06 - September 28, 2002

John Heward & Sylvia Safdie | collaboration






untitled (light) 2002
fragment

untitled (island) 2002
& untitled (air) 2002
dvd projection/oil on canvas
plexiglass, aluminum 2002

installation view

untitled (light) 2002
aluminum rod, cast aluminum
57" x 180" x 23"

installation view

For the past twenty-one years John Heward and Sylvia Safdie have lived and worked in the same building in Montreal. A continuous dialogue has developed over the years that have resulted in various collaborations using video, painting and sculpture. Some of these have been exhibited in Montreal, Copenhagen, Chicago, Calgary, New York and Beijing.

In this exhibition Heward and Safdie have made work that is a meditation on absence and presence, mass and light, permanence and impermanence, similarities and differences, stillness and movement. As T.S. Eliot wrote ".a moment in and out of time".