Exhibitions
In the ODD Gallery:
January 19 - February 24, 2012
SARAH SMALIK MY FATHER, THE SUN, & THE HUNGRY GHOSTS
Opening Thursday January 19, 2012 | Artist Talk at 7:00pm | Reception at 8:00pm
Sarah
Smalik's multidisciplinary practice spans installation,
video/animation, sculpture and performance. Her current work is invested
in the polar connection of faith/fear, the parallels of
religious/psychedelic experience, and a psychological study of
reflection and light. Of Pakistani/Acadian origin, she has lived and
worked from sub-Saharan Africa to New York City, and currently finds her
base in Calgary, where she graduated with distinction from the Alberta
College of Art + Design in 2010.
MY
FATHER, THE SUN & THE HUNGRY GHOSTS is a dismantling of the divine,
where science and sanctity intersect, and the overlapping study of light
and religion reveals a similar paradox: that it may blind you or
clarify the way. These hungry ghosts speak of haunting traditions of the
past that no longer make sense in the present—yet if we illuminate them
we may uncover a beautiful and mysterious truth at the heart. And it
sparkles in the dark.
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