Oakville Galleries, Oakville

Centennial Square, 120 Navy Street
ON-L6J 2Z4 Oakville

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artist / participant

Sara Cwynar 

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OAKVILLE GALLERIES AT CENTENNIAL SQUARE

SARA CWYNAR
08.04.2018 - 03.06.2018

In her first museum exhibition in Canada, Sara Cwynar presents her acclaimed works Soft Film (2016) and Rose Gold (2017) alongside her newest film and a suite of recent photographs. Using voice-over, a fast-moving collage of found images and footage of the artist herself working in the studio, Cwynar's densely layered films range over a number of subjects relevant to our image-saturated society. These include the circulation and value of objects through time, our relationship to technology and advertising culture, the potent emotional and aspirational charge of material consumption, and how colour can be coveted as an object of desire. Her photographs enlarge on these themes, asking critical questions about the power at play in the distribution and consumption of images and things.