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Virginia Abbott and Ilze Bebris

July 23 - August 2

Atists' Talk August 3 @ noon 

Longing for connection and permanence is a site-specific installation in which Virginia Abbott and Ilze Bebris will work in the gallery, employing 10,000 coffee stir sticks and hot glue to create a sculptural structure over the course of five days. The final piece will depend on the ideas, energy, dexterity and technical ability of the artists as they create the work. The only promise the artists have made to themselves is that they will allow the work to become something tenuous, undermining their expectations of solidity and the permanence of built structures. This is in direct contradiction to the carefully planned methods that they usually use in their practice. The completed project will likely look like a fragile web - an improvised construction which has grown into fragile extensions, reaching towards the ceiling or the wall, bending, leaning towards collapse, still under construction. 

Marina Roy and Abbas Akhavan

July 12-17

Artists' Talk July 13 at noon

In Greener Pastures, Marina Roy and Abbas Akhavan set out to explore and question the identity of place, the economy of consumption, and the packaging of cultural experiences in Victoria's tourism industry. Two videos, Bombay Sapphire and Royal Victoria Security, will be projected on a continuous loop in a darkened area of the gallery. The installation will deliberately utilize iconic items connected to Victoria's colonial history. Visitors will be able to seat themselves on an old mattress which will be placed on a rolled out bed of grass on the gallery floor. They will then be invited to sip tea from fine china while they view the videos. In other words, it's a whole new way of experiencing "high tea" in what is often known as the "Garden City" - just don't expect the Queen to be there.