LIVING SPACE - and exhibition curated by Tom Isaacs

Curated by Tom Isaacs (under the ATVP Emerging Curator Mentorship Program)

OPENING: Thursday March 12, 2010

At The Vanishing Point Gallery 565 King st. Newtown.

"Living Space" explores the reciprocal relationship between the body and space, and the process through which the one is defined in the defining of the other.  What the body is, what it can and cannot do, and the meaning or consequence of these potentials is a direct corollary of the space in which it exists and which it navigates in common with other bodies.  At the same time, that same space is defined as place, qualified, and given meaning and measure by the experience of those bodies that inhabit and activate it, the stories they play out within the potentials it opens and the limits it sets, both physical and absolute or conventional and relative. "Living Space" brings together works that open up and divulge the often unacknowledged interplay between body and space through a range of strategies that play with, pervert or otherwise challenge what we assume we know about that submerged border between the mass of the body and the shape of space.