Reflections on Transparency
Benjamin de Boer and Sophia Oppel
TPW is delighted to present a new commission by Benjamin de Boer and Sophia Oppel.
Reflections on Transparency is an examination of the transparent barriers that have become ubiquitous in sites of retail in light of COVID-19. Born of an interest in hostile architecture, public space and landscapes that elicit particular behaviours, this investigation meditates on the intersections between the politics of hygiene and disaster capitalism.
Benjamin and Sophia’s project will be posted on TPW’s Instagram from October 8 – 10, 2020.
Biographies
Benjamin de Boer (b. 1995, Attawandaron, ON) is a writer, researcher, and bookseller living in Tkaronto. They received their Honours BA in Philosophy and Archaeology from the University of Toronto in 2018. Benjamin can be found studying the melancholy poetics of our earth lyric and exploring their openness to improvisation within a practice of group enunciation. Favouring sympedagogic situations, Benjamin currently co-directs Hearth, an arts space founded alongside Rowan Lynch, Sameen Mahboubi, and Philip Leonard Ocampo.
Sophia Oppel (b. 1995) is an arts practitioner and researcher born and based in Tkaronto. Oppel’s work examines interfaces and infrastructures as sites of power, and their influences on embodied experience. Oppel received her BFA from OCAD University and is currently a co-director of Bunker 2 Gallery, and a Master of Visual Studies candidate at the University of Toronto. Oppel has exhibited locally and internationally.
Reflections on Transparency is presented in the context of MOVEMENTS. As its title suggests, this online and site-specific program presents several projects by artists whose work references diverse definitions, experiences and enactments of movements. Bringing together a range of practices, MOVEMENTS reflects on both the intimate scale of the body as it shifts through time and space, within transient gestures and encounters, and organized actions that provoke vital, unsettling change.
MOVEMENTS is made possible with support from Partners in Art
Image Credit
Photographs from Benjamin de Boer and Sophia Oppel
Reflections on Transparency
Benjamin de Boer and Sophia Oppel
TPW is delighted to present a new commission by Benjamin de Boer and Sophia Oppel.
Reflections on Transparency is an examination of the transparent barriers that have become ubiquitous in sites of retail in light of COVID-19. Born of an interest in hostile architecture, public space and landscapes that elicit particular behaviours, this investigation meditates on the intersections between the politics of hygiene and disaster capitalism.
Benjamin and Sophia’s project will be posted on TPW’s Instagram from October 8 – 10, 2020.
Biographies
Benjamin de Boer (b. 1995, Attawandaron, ON) is a writer, researcher, and bookseller living in Tkaronto. They received their Honours BA in Philosophy and Archaeology from the University of Toronto in 2018. Benjamin can be found studying the melancholy poetics of our earth lyric and exploring their openness to improvisation within a practice of group enunciation. Favouring sympedagogic situations, Benjamin currently co-directs Hearth, an arts space founded alongside Rowan Lynch, Sameen Mahboubi, and Philip Leonard Ocampo.
Sophia Oppel (b. 1995) is an arts practitioner and researcher born and based in Tkaronto. Oppel’s work examines interfaces and infrastructures as sites of power, and their influences on embodied experience. Oppel received her BFA from OCAD University and is currently a co-director of Bunker 2 Gallery, and a Master of Visual Studies candidate at the University of Toronto. Oppel has exhibited locally and internationally.
Reflections on Transparency is presented in the context of MOVEMENTS. As its title suggests, this online and site-specific program presents several projects by artists whose work references diverse definitions, experiences and enactments of movements. Bringing together a range of practices, MOVEMENTS reflects on both the intimate scale of the body as it shifts through time and space, within transient gestures and encounters, and organized actions that provoke vital, unsettling change.
MOVEMENTS is made possible with support from Partners in Art
Image Credit
Photographs from Benjamin de Boer and Sophia Oppel
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Photorama: Future Editions
November 20 - December 12, 2020
Featured Artists:
Basil AlZeri Jamelie Hassan
Stephen Andrews Aaron Jones
Scott Benesiinaabandan Will Kwan
Jorian Charlton Sophia Oppel and Benjamin de Boer
Hannah Claus Kara Springer
Carole Condé and Karl Beveridge Ho Tam
Ahmed Drebika Jeff Thomas
Leila Fatemi Syrus Marcus Ware
Shellie Zhang
Gallery TPW’s annual fundraising exhibition takes a different approach this year in celebration of our socially engaged history and new mandate and in recognition of the current political climate. Featuring an intimate collection of carefully curated works from established, mid-career and emerging artists, Photorama: Future Editions presents a range of practices that deeply connect to and comment on the world around us.
Photorama: Future Editions celebrates a community of artists that inspires and supports the gallery. Our annual fundraiser offers art enthusiasts a great opportunity to purchase affordable lens-based artworks by exceptional artists, while helping Gallery TPW to sustain our meaningful, forward-looking exhibitions and programs.
HOW TO BUY:
We're doing things a little differently this year to make it easier and safer for you to purchase great work and to support Gallery TPW. Purchases can now be made:
1. Online through our Photorama Shop.
2. By phone by calling 416.645.1066, especially for layaway purchases or consultations.
Special thank you to Stephen Bulger Gallery and Paul Petro Contemporary Art for their support.
Photorama: Future Editions Lead Sponsor
Images (clockwise from top right): Kara Springer, Untitled, Lake Ontario, Shellie Zhang, $56.82, Means of Exchange Series, Jeff Thomas, Peace Chief, Tower, Toronto, Ontario, Scott Benesiinaabandan, newlandia: fragment, Will Kwan, Study #7 for The Infinites (De Quincey’s Confessions).