Absence et présence (2013)

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"Jericho" from the series “Absence and Presence", Flashe acrylic on paper, 42 11/16 x 119 7/8 in. (108.5 x 304.6 cm.), {FT = 3 ft. 6 11/16 in. x 9 ft. 11 7/8 in.}, produced in Montreal, Canada, 2013. Photo: © Kakim Goh
Presented by Festival Accès Asie

Two-person exhibition

KAKIM GOH
Paintings & videos

VERONA SORENSEN
Paintings & videos

Maison de la culture du Plateau-Mont Royal
465, Avenue Mont-Royal Est, Montreal, Quebec, Canada, H2J 1W3, Canada

Exhibition: May 4 to June 2, 2013

Vernissage: Friday, May 3, 2013 @ 5:00 PM

Discussion with the Artists: Sunday, May 12, 2013 @ 3:00 PM

“Absence et présence” is a thematic-based exhibition of recent paintings and videos by Kakim Goh and Verona Sorensen. Drawing on the concepts of “absence and presence”, the artists reflect on the dance of life and death, tackling form and formlessness, overlapping the boundaries between abstraction and figuration, articulating memory and experience.

Kakim Goh presented “Absence and Presence” - a series of 5 mural-scale acrylic paintings on paper and 5 HD videos conceived as improvisations on memory, place, ancestry and the evolution of culture in response to change. The compositions are portrayals of imagined spaces inhabited by family and friends, tone poems to the dead and the living; spaces where ideological battles are waged; the epicenters of pain and desire. Odes to what is loved, lost, gained and sacrificed to the network of ever-changing winds.
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