22 January to 14 February 2009

Texto: A Goup Show
Deanna Bowen, Ricardo Cuevas, Joel Herman, Yam Lau, Ken Lum, Gordon Lebredt & Francine Savard

Texto explores how artists use text in various media. The exhibition features a wide range of work by Deanna Bowen, Ricardo Cuevas, Joel Herman, Yam Lau, Ken Lum, Gordon Lebredt and Francine Savard. Together, this selection of photographs, drawings, prints and installations investigates questions of politics, identity, perception and the commercial dominance of words. Several of these works present text in familiar contexts such as books and storefront signage; by doing so, they make us question how we gather information, and which information to trust. These works demonstrate that the use of text, while perhaps a more direct method of communication than images, holds a reservoir of possible meanings.