75 Oriole Rd

October 24 - November 28, 2020
Reception: Saturday, October 24 from 1pm - 7pm

Niloufar Salimi

Artist in attendance on October 24 from 1pm - 7pm. All are welcome.
Open through November 28th by appointment.
Contact us through instagram or email: ruth dot skinner at gmail dot com
We ask that all visitors follow Ontario public health guidelines.

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Excerpts from an accompanying essay by E.C. Woodley:

Perhaps it is not a surprise that the daily drawing practice that produced this exhibition was occasioned by the loss of Salimi’s collective studio to COVID-19 safety measures. 75 Oriole Rd is an urgent retrieval of concentrated attention and seeing, of encounter with physical appearances.

With these drawings, Salimi is an argument against the God-who-sees-everything. To be human is to trace the structure of the local with the device of your senses, with the matter of your own body. Is this the last day above the earth for one of the pale yellow leaves that takes up the light into its thin, drying membrane? Salimi watches, translates a curl, a bending towards air as if floating or flying, an elegant thrown-ness, or an ineluctable drooping. She assumes the identity of each leaf within the negotiated collectivity of a tense, clustered branch as it reaches for the light or begins to fall slowly, imperceptibly, away from existence towards the other side of cyclical time. She discovers beauty and melancholy in this.

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75 Oriole Rd, installation image