Oliver Husain: Roving

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Oliver Husain, "Isla Santa Maria 3D," 2016

video still stereoscopic video installation, 17:00 minutes. Image courtesy of the artist and Susan Hobbs Gallery, Toronto.

Working at the intersection of moving image, performance, sculpture and installation, Oliver Husain has developed a captivating and curious art practice. One of the most striking aspects of the artist’s work is how it implicates viewers, drawing their eyes and bodies into peculiar cinematic experiences. Oliver Husain: Roving presents five of the artist’s works in film and video, ranging from surreal meditations on time and space to arresting character studies and speculations on futuristic wayfaring. Together, they present Husain’s ongoing engagement with pageantry, illusion, anticipation, absurdity and the apparatus of film itself.

Unfolding between March and October, the selected works are presented in succession. The series culminates with Isla Santa Maria 3D (2016), an immersive experience that transports viewers to a mythical island, said to have formed from the wreckage of a replica of Christopher Columbus’s ship.

WORKS ON VIEW:

Purfled Promises, 2009: March 30–April 29

Moth Maze, 2012: May 1–27

Item Number, 2012: May 29–July 2

Were Here, 2017: July 3–August 12

Isla Santa Maria 3D, 2016: August 17–October 14

CURATORIAL TEAM

Organized by Rose Bouthillier, Curator (Exhibitions)