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MFA Thesis 2020: Becca Wijshijer | Tyler Matheson</h1>
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Presented by University of Waterloo Fine Arts and UWAG</h2>
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<p style="margin:1em 0px; padding:0px; line-height:2rem; max-width:636px"><span style="color:rgb(0,0,0)">In response to the unfortunate cancellation of MFA thesis exhibitions scheduled April 16-May 2 due to the COVID-19 pandemic, the Department of Fine Arts
and University of Waterloo Art Gallery invite you to explore the work of MFA candidates Becca Wijshijer</span> and Tyler Matheson online or via downloadable pdf:</p>
<p style="margin:1em 0px; padding:0px; line-height:2rem; max-width:636px"><a href="https://akimbo.us14.list-manage.com/track/click?u=7dce056c3a021a085b762c0da&id=b2a0c924e8&e=f49260924a" target="_blank" style="color:rgb(42,42,42); background-color:transparent">http://uwag.uwaterloo.ca/<wbr>exhibition/becca-wijshijer/</a></p>
<p style="margin:1em 0px; padding:0px; line-height:2rem; max-width:636px"><a href="https://akimbo.us14.list-manage.com/track/click?u=7dce056c3a021a085b762c0da&id=c2ed3f81b9&e=f49260924a" target="_blank" style="color:rgb(42,42,42); background-color:transparent">http://uwag.uwaterloo.ca/<wbr>exhibition/tyler-matheson/</a></p>
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<em style="">Top 5 Things to do in Berlin</em>, Becca Wijshijer, 2020</p>
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<span style="font-weight:bolder">Becca Wijshijer</span><br style="">
<span style="font-weight:bolder">shrimpychip YouTube</span></h4>
<p style="margin:1em 0px; padding:0px; line-height:2rem; max-width:636px"><em style="">shrimpychip YouTube</em> is a series of YouTube videos that explore the ways in which digital intimacy and capitalism intersect. The performances, designed for the platform,
strategically exploit the intimacy of the body, home, and notions of privacy in order to highlight the counterintuitive relationships embodied in new digital capitalism. Editing and aesthetics of social platforms are employed to stress the strangeness of these
new economic, cultural, social, and private relationships. In documenting myself using AI and search tools, the work functions as a digital archive of actions and perceptions, thereby providing a firsthand account of the body and thoughts as they are mediated
by technology. By following trends tirelessly, to the point of the ridiculous, <em style="">shrimpychip</em> empathizes with Internet culture while amplifying aspects of concern.</p>
<p style="margin:1em 0px; padding:0px; line-height:2rem; max-width:636px">Becca Wijshijer is a research-based artist working within digital media. Wijshijer is an MFA candidate at the University of Waterloo, and received a BFA from OCAD University. They have
exhibited at La Centrale galerie Powerhouse in Montreal; Supermarket 2019 in Stockholm, Sweden; and are alumni of The Roundtable Residency in Toronto.</p>
<p style="margin:1em 0px; padding:0px; line-height:2rem; max-width:636px"><a href="https://akimbo.us14.list-manage.com/track/click?u=7dce056c3a021a085b762c0da&id=63ef54f700&e=f49260924a" target="_blank" style="color:rgb(42,42,42); background-color:transparent">http://www.shrimpychip.net</a><br style="">
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<em style="">untitled (for Felix)</em>, Tyler Matheson, 2019</p>
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<span style="font-weight:bolder">Tyler Matheson</span><br style="">
<span style="font-weight:bolder">Any other name would smell as sweet</span></h4>
<p style="margin:1em 0px; padding:0px; line-height:2rem; max-width:636px"><em style="">Any other name would smell as sweet</em> is an exploration of personal and shared experiences of feeling queer. This exhibition serves as an aesthetic and material investigation
of the performativity of othered bodies, identities, and visibility. The process of becoming and adapting to surroundings is conceptually and experientially present in my work. When creating installations, I employ mirrors and queer-coded reflective materials.
By choosing materials that have the visual capability to shift and transform their appearance depending on the viewer’s body and position in relation to the work, I create a spatial dynamism where each individual’s experience is uniquely their own—where the
viewer and the work are reliant on each other. In this codependent performance, the gallery becomes a site where viewers can be projected into queer liminal space—a bridge between worlds.</p>
<p style="margin:1em 0px; padding:0px; line-height:2rem; max-width:636px">Tyler Matheson is an MFA candidate at the University of Waterloo and received a Bachelor of Fine Art from York University. He has exhibited in Montreal and Toronto. He was awarded a Shantz
International Research Scholarship through the University of Waterloo, and worked with German artists Fabian Treiber and Dave Bopp in the summer of 2019. He was a recipient of the 2019 Superframe Framing Fund.</p>
<p style="margin:1em 0px; padding:0px; line-height:2rem; max-width:636px"><a href="https://akimbo.us14.list-manage.com/track/click?u=7dce056c3a021a085b762c0da&id=b8d3b8c8f0&e=f49260924a" target="_blank" style="color:rgb(42,42,42); background-color:transparent">https://www.<wbr>tylermathesonartist.com/</a></p>
<p style="margin:1em 0px; padding:0px; line-height:2rem; max-width:636px">Please check out the work of our MFA candidates during this time of transition.</p>
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<p style="margin:1em 0px; padding:0px; line-height:2rem; max-width:636px"><span style="font-weight:bolder">CONTACT</span><br style="">
Ivan Jurakic, Director / Curator<br style="">
<a href="mailto:ijurakic@uwaterloo.ca" target="_blank" style="color:rgb(42,42,42); background-color:transparent">ijurakic@uwaterloo.ca</a></p>
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Gallery remains closed until further notice</p>
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University of Waterloo Art Gallery<br style="">
200 University Avenue West<br style="">
Waterloo, ON, Canada N2L 3G1</p>
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