Campus Gallery Opening Reception – Barrie
The Violence of Possibility: Memory, “Progress,” and Place
An Exhibition of Work by Linda Zhang and Biko Mandela Gray
October 31-November 28, 2024
- Opening reception: Wednesday, November 6 from 5-7 p.m.
- Artist Talk and Film Screening at The Campus Gallery: Friday, November 8 at 10 a.m.
About the exhibition
If a house burns down, it’s gone, but the place—the picture of it—stays, and not just in my rememory, but out there, in the world. –Toni Morrison, Beloved
The past can haunt you. Especially when that past has been covered up and papered over by narratives of progress and possibility. What was forgotten will always threaten to return. But maybe haunting opens a different way of thinking—and perhaps moving and acting in the world. The Violence of Possibility, an exhibition by Linda Zhang and Biko Mandela Gray, turns to three different sites–a street, a gypsum mine, and a canal–to explore the brutal dynamics of memory and erasure. This installation showcases ceramic casts and 3d-scanned pieces that are haunting in their presence; in doing so, Zhang and Gray hope to open a space to grapple with the various ways the forgotten past haunts us.
Because that past is, still, out there. In the world.
