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 2021

Please note that Photorama 2021 is now closed. Details regarding Photorama 2022 will be available in October.

Photorama is Gallery TPW’s annual fundraising exhibition, featuring contemporary photography and lens-based art by over 50 artists.

Sales from Photorama directly support our charitable mandate of exhibiting underrepresented artistic and curatorial practices that push the boundaries of lens-based work.

We are delighted to be launching Photorama Editions this year - a curated collection of ten small prints each priced at $120 or $1,000 for the full collection.

All artwork can be picked-up at Gallery TPW from December 8 - 10 and December 14 - 16, 2021 between 11am and 6pm. Or in January during regular gallery hours. For shipping and delivery options please contact the gallery directly.

Please note that purchases can also be made in-gallery and by phone at 416.645.1066. Please call for consultations or to inquire about layaway options available.

Photorama Editions 2021: