La Petite Mort Gallery presents

exquisite corpse
group exhibit curated by Sharon Van Starkenburg

November 2 - December 2, 2012
Vernissage Friday, November 2, 7-10 pm
Tunes by Big Mac Daddy
Proudly sponsored by CKCU 93.1 FM

featuring
Amy Thompson, Heidi Conrod, Jeremiah Degrandpre, Joyce Westrop,  
Karina Kraenzle,
Meaghan Haughian, Peter Shmelzer, Sharon Van Starkenburg, Tavi Weisz,  
Theo Pelmus & Tim desClouds

Statement:
Exploiting the mystique of accident and creative cross-pollination in  
a collaborative project, a number of artists have submitted  
themselves to a version of the parlour game, Exquisite Corpse. The  
identities of the participants are unknown to one another and each  
artist is privy only to the image of the piece that comes directly  
before his or her own. The resulting sequential project bears out the  
phenomenon described as “mental contagion”.

In this version of Exquisite Corpse, each artist was asked to submit  
one word that would form the phrase to inspire the first piece in the  
sequence. The resulting poeticism was “The glowing metamorphosis  
breathes putrified love producing an exquisite phenomenon.” From  
this, the first artist created a piece, and an image of it was sent  
to the second artist in the project. Once that piece was complete an  
image of the second piece was sent to the third artist and so on. The  
resulting collection of works is a magnificent coincidence,  
sequential yet individual, one and many at the same time, simply  
exquisite.

Merci,


Guy Berube
Gallery Director

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