TRACE is happening at The OCAD Graduate Gallery (205 Richmond Street West). There is a reception on November 16 from 5-9pm with catered refreshments where you can meet, chat, and mingle with the curators and artists. We hope you can make it!

“A trace may be small—a hint to the existence of something, a residue we can’t ignore. It is the beginning of a process, to subvert assumptions and discover intentions. It is the evidence that an investigation is taking place—revealing the hidden and acknowledging the ghosted. The absence of presence is where the trace reveals itself.”

Curated by the Criticism and Curatorial Practice first year program (including Jeff Tallon of Akin Sunrise), TRACE brings together the works of OCAD University’s Interdisciplinary Art, Media, and Design candidates to explore the contingent experience of presence as trace evades the ‘real,’ pointing to its constitutive outside: the unreal. Trace, a sign for everything elusive, has no site, but rather is change of site marked by its erasure, making it disappear in its appearance.

Featuring Artists:
Sarah Carlson
Lingxiang Wu
Vanessa Jackson
Tal Sofia Braniss
Ellen Snowball
Randa Reda
Philip Sparks
Kirstie McCallum
Coco Guzman
Shannon Lee
Adrienne Matheuszik
Lida Shanehchiyan
Kristi Poole-Adler
Dori Vanderheyden

Curated By:
Elizabeth Claire Handley-Derry
Liz Ikiriko
Erica Jane Cristobal
Panya Clark Espinal
Jeff Tallon
Keiko Hart

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