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Republic Gallery 732 Richards St, Third Floor, Vancouver, British Columbia V6B 3A1
Oliver Husain, "Were Here," 2017
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Opening Reception: January 25, 6-8pm
The films of Oliver Husain consistently play with cinematic languages and visual codes. Husain’s projects often begin with a fragment of history, a rumour, a personal encounter, or a distant memory. Central to his new exhibition is a new video work Were Here (Canada/India, 2017), in which a woman repeatedly visits her former home on St. Marks Road, Bangalore, descending deeper into her memories with each visit. The film examines how artists deal with trauma and pain caused by politics, and how artists counter the entropy of history.
“History is not only in the things – the paintings, the photographs, books and scripts or whatever. It forms a glue. It forms a substance. An intangible substance that permeates everything.”
Oliver Husain is a filmmaker and artist based in Toronto. He uses a wide range of cinematic languages and visual pleasures – such as dance, puppetry, costume, and special effects – to animate his research and charm or fold the viewers into complex narrative set-ups. Recent solo exhibitions include Isla Santa Maria 3D at Gallery TPW Toronto and Western Front, Vancouver (2016). In 2017, his work was shown at Kunstverein Nuremburg, as well as the Berlinale Filmfestival forum Expanded.
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