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VAV Exhibition Proposal  MATIÈRE À FICTION  MATIÈRE À PENSER

(material for fiction material for thought)

 We are a group of 16 students from Bonnie Baxter and Jenny Lin’s advanced screen print class who would like to propose an immersive collaborative installation titled MATIÈRE À FICTION  MATIÈRE À PENSER .

The transformation of the gallery space into a live fiction would be achieved through constructed installations and screen printing onto various surfaces of the gallery (windows, walls and floors *).

The entirety of the windows of the gallery offer a wonderful opportunity to utilize “vertical screen printing” (please see examples on our web link **) which would afford us the opportunity to mediate the gallery space while referencing both the interior and exterior of the gallery.

As the viewer wines through the gallery the fiction will unfold as seen through various installations of transparent and screen printed elements constructed throughout. Overlapping narratives and changing scenarios will filter through the gallery as the light of day changes into night; and different elements come to the forefront with the viewer becoming an unwitting player in the fictional theater.

The installations will be informed and supported through the use of different materials which in themselves carry meaning as well as through Immersive screen printing to create architectural planes as part of a fictional narrative experienced through visual illusions, trompe l’oeil and mysterious psychological connections. ….

 

If possible, should we be granted an exhibition, we would like to request an exhibition date toward the end of March: due to the lack of availability of many of the students after the term is over and in compliance with the weather and the possibility of working outside.

 

 

• * screen print ink is water based and easily comes off of windows with a scraper, floor printing may be directly onto mactac  and then attached to the floor, and screen printing onto walls may be covered over with white paint.

 

• ** Shawn Davis has worked for a number of years vertically screen printing with Bonnie Baxter’s students in the context of an exhibition in Val-David.