Liam O'Sullivan - Nature Preserve: A dog park for empathy
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Xchanges Artists' Gallery and Studios 6E-2333 Government Street, Victoria, British Columbia V8T 4P4
Liam O'Sullivan
Liam O'Sullivan - Nature Preserve: A dog park for empathy
Opening Reception: Friday 16 October, 7-9pm
The Nature Preserve project engages with the re-naturalisation of creativity. Under the project's extended metaphor, the preserve acts as an intermediate wild environment in that it invites interpretations, perspectives, creativities, identities and allows us to stretch our legs a little. Mythology, landscape, and the painted medium is used to instigate the beginnings of a comfortable interpretation, but the specific subject within the work moves to repel any obvious or absolute reading.
Counterpointed in small ways with several videos, the project experiments with absurdism and humor to present a landscape of playfully fluctuating possibilities, that we may explore and celebrate these unsung parts of ourselves.