Living Palette
September 13 - November 9, 2024
Xpace Cultural Centre
Lisa Cristinzo
Camille Jodoin-Eng
Julie Pasila
Curated by GAS Collective
Living Palette takes primary colours red, yellow, blue as a representation of the fundamental elements of life: fire, earth, water, air (and aether). The exhibition juxtaposes primary colours as the foundation of creation and the fundamental elements as the basis of living, reimagining their interactions and their potential to achieve ecological balance.
Featuring installation, painting and photographic works from three artists, the gallery space transforms into a living palette. Visitors are invited to grapple with the harmony and tension within and between the artworks. By weaving these fundamental forces in the gallery space, the exhibition asks: How can living entities synergize with the palette of elements, and envision more nourishing and sustainable futures?
Read the full curatorial essay here
All photo documentation by Polina Teif
About GAS Collective
Taking the initials of our names: Gizem Candan, Ann Tong Li and Steffi Sin Tung Ng, we, three graduates from OCAD’s MFA Criticism and Curatorial Practice program, formed the GAS collective. We are brought together not only by the two years we spent closely with each other, but also by our shared identity being first-generation Asian immigrants and women of colour. As the word gas evokes the air we breathe and bathe, our identity, invisible but omnipresent, intangible but vital, is simultaneously reminded of in the art scene and society just like air to the human species.
