galleryDK : Past Exhibitions - 2008
December 2008: PhotoLab - This exhibition featured photography by anyone, for everyone. The digital camera revolution has opened up photography to the world. With PhotoLab, we wanted to do the same for photography exhibitions in our gallery. We understand that it can be very hard for emerging artists to get their work into a gallery, so PhotoLab was designed to be as accommodating as possible to all who expressed an interest in participating.
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November 2008: Vestigial Limbs - Max Wright exhibited a body of photography-based, mixed media work that he began developing in spring 2008. His objective with this work had been to focus and refine ideas he had explored in previous work concerning the relationship of materials to experience. His belief is that the marks and traces that scar the surfaces of materials behave as a language that extends beyond the materials themselves; it is a language that identifies a form of non-existence, of things which are no longer present.
October 2008: A World Abandoned - This new photography exhibition from the DK Photo Group featured shots taken in old Europe during the filming of a television series coming to Bravo! Canada in the fall of 2009. Giving viewers a glimpse into obsolescence and ruin, the show ran in concurrence with Nuit Blanche. To see more of the newly-titled "photoXplorers", please visit the mini-site here.
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October 4th, 2008: Silent Witness - As part of Scotiabank Nuit Blanche, the DK Photo Group, for the first time, took participants with them to behold the isolation, desolation, and beauty found in unexpected places. Beyond the no trespassing signs. Beyond the fences and barbed wire into a world of abandonment and society's architectural refuse. Through the use of immersive video, environmental sound, and sensory manipulation, the DK Photo Group's multi-media installation, Silent Witness, offers those who explore the installation an opportunity to shout these building stories back at the society that condemns them to history.
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September 2008: An exhibition that featured the architectural abandonment photography of Russell Brohier and Sean Galbraith. Urban decay and demolition by neglect is present in all urban settings. All buildings have a story, a history, a life, and a death. Industrial factories rust. Office buildings slowly crumble. Residential buildings are reclaimed by the elements. It is a rarity that these building evolutions witnessed by those outside their walls. I go where many have gone in the past, but few go today. To explore, embrace, and bring sight to these spaces and environments from which others avert their gaze.
August 2008: Modern Ruins - The two-man show by Steve Jacobs and Laurin Jeffrey. Images of desolation. Of abandonment. Of past lives in past places that have been passed by. Societies create societal memories and history through their architecture. But these spaces do not stop telling stories simply because that same society shutters them away and asks itself to stop listening.
July 2008: Still Remains - The entire premise behind Mathew Merrett's photography is to bring an unusual perspective and awareness to things that most people wouldn't give a second glance to. Exposing the obscure and resurrecting life where it once existed is his photographic passion. By carefully visualizing my surroundings as they once were and are today, past and present are captured as one.
May 2008: anamnesis - The fourth DK Photo Group show ran from May 1st to June 30th. A factory once alive with the force of industry, now stagnant and collapsing under the weight history. A piano once alive with expressions of creativity, now in quiet solitude. Two very different images connected at the point where memory and history collide. Images of past lives in past places that have been passed by.
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April 2008: Mosaic - On April 10, galleryDK opened its doors for the first time to host the STEPs to University students of Parkdale Collegiate Institute and West Toronto Collegiate Institute as they presented their work in visual sociology. With sociological concepts in mind, these talented students took images of their world, with emphasis on the issues of stratification and inequality. Mosaic was a colourful interpretation of our society.
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