galleryDK is proud to present a new photographic exhibition by Vancouver artist Karen Moe. The exhibition runs from July 2 to July 26. An artist reception will be held on July 2 from 7-10pm.
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Lethe / detritus
Named after the river that is drunk from to instill forgetfulness before one descends into Hell, Lethe addresses how what we forget creates who we are and thus forms cultural identity.
This exhibit and performance at gallery DK combines two of Vancouver artist Karen Moe’s photographic series “detritus: East Vancouver Alleyways” (2004) and “Lethe: a mock metaphysics” (2005). In ‘detritus,’ Moe documented found objects in alleyways as symbols of what is discarded in society and as traces of memory located in personal histories. The self-portraits and performance of “Lethe: a mock metaphysics” are a response to Moe’s own abduction and rapes; the art production and reception extends this personal distress into its societal context. By exhibiting these projects together, social and personal liminalizations echo each other in tangible ways.
As a visual context to the Lethe images, Moe will create a background series of images composed of newspaper photographs of some of Vancouver’s missing women along with their names and the dates of their disappearances. These women were literally vanishing as she created Lethe, a fact unknown to her and the majority of the Vancouver community at the time. But Lethe, being about memory and forgetting, can now become a memorial on many levels.
In this anguished elaboration of discarded things and disappeared women, Moe’s exhibit articulates silences at the core of patriarchal culture and the social and spiritual necessity of memory’s continuance.
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About galleryDK
Located at 1332 Queen Street West, galleryDK is an artist-run space
that specializes in contemporary urban photography. The gallery seeks
to present photographic and photo-based work examining and exploring
all facets of the urban experience – not only in Toronto, but around
the world.
Karen Moe – Lethe/Detritus – Opening Reception July 2 @ galleryDK
galleryDK is proud to present a new photographic exhibition by Vancouver artist Karen Moe. The exhibition runs from July 2 to July 26. An artist reception will be held on July 2 from 7-10pm.
–
Lethe / detritus
Named after the river that is drunk from to instill forgetfulness before one descends into Hell, Lethe addresses how what we forget creates who we are and thus forms cultural identity.
This exhibit and performance at gallery DK combines two of Vancouver artist Karen Moe’s photographic series “detritus: East Vancouver Alleyways” (2004) and “Lethe: a mock metaphysics” (2005). In ‘detritus,’ Moe documented found objects in alleyways as symbols of what is discarded in society and as traces of memory located in personal histories. The self-portraits and performance of “Lethe: a mock metaphysics” are a response to Moe’s own abduction and rapes; the art production and reception extends this personal distress into its societal context. By exhibiting these projects together, social and personal liminalizations echo each other in tangible ways.
As a visual context to the Lethe images, Moe will create a background series of images composed of newspaper photographs of some of Vancouver’s missing women along with their names and the dates of their disappearances. These women were literally vanishing as she created Lethe, a fact unknown to her and the majority of the Vancouver community at the time. But Lethe, being about memory and forgetting, can now become a memorial on many levels.
In this anguished elaboration of discarded things and disappeared women, Moe’s exhibit articulates silences at the core of patriarchal culture and the social and spiritual necessity of memory’s continuance.
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About galleryDK
Located at 1332 Queen Street West, galleryDK is an artist-run space
that specializes in contemporary urban photography. The gallery seeks
to present photographic and photo-based work examining and exploring
all facets of the urban experience – not only in Toronto, but around
the world.
The gallery is open Thursdays through Sunday, from 12pm-5pm, otherwise
by appointment.
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info@gallerydk.com
416-913-7116