Last chance to see MFA Thesis exhibitions at UWAG closing Saturday May 18

[Jurakic, Ivan]

University of Waterloo Fine Arts Presents
MFA Thesis Two

Exhibitions closing Saturday May 18


Gallery One
Zahra Baseri
Tell All The Truth But Tell It Slant

Tell All The Truth But Tell It Slant is the result of my research on the problematic nature of binary oppositions and their causal relationship with power dynamics. From the viewpoint of an Iranian living in the Diaspora, I create images, objects, and spaces that subtly speak to the collective phenomenological experience of a shared melancholia that those who self-identify as Iranian are undergoing. The exhibition addresses complex issues of the oppressive ruling system in Iran that continually and deliberately produces socio-political turmoil as a way to control its citizens. I employ allegory and representation of culturally and historically significant imagery from Persian and Islamic art and architecture as a commentary on political and social issues. While accentuating the importance of materiality, my work questions the subject-object duality to more profoundly bring the political into the material realm. www.zahrabaseri.com <http://www.zahrabaseri.com/>


Gallery Two
Paula McLean
To Catch A Glimpse of Things

To Catch A Glimpse of Things is an exploration into concretizing and prolonging ephemeral gestures. Through the repetition of ambiguous forms and recurring imagery of distorted, amorphous figures, an attempt is made to reconstruct the complex and fragmentary phenomenon of perception, and the way meaning is created retrospectively through the extraction and arrangement of disparate moments and details gathered from lived experience. Employing the mediums of painting, drawing and sculpture, the exhibition presents a body of work in which the process of reproducing, abstracting and translating distorted images into other variations, mirrors the universal activity of the meaning-making mind, a mind that analyzes, prioritizes, erases, or substitutes aspects of experience as a means of negotiating a perceptually fluid world. www.paulamclean.ca <http://www.paulamclean.ca/>

Exhibitions are free and open to the public.

ADMIT EVERYONE
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East Campus Hall 1239
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CONTACT
Ivan Jurakic, Director / Curator
519.888.4567 ext. 36741
ijurakic at uwaterloo.ca <mailto:ijurakic at uwaterloo.ca>

HOURS
Tuesday to Saturday 12:00-5:00 pm or by appointment

DRIVING
263 Phillip Street, Waterloo
East Campus Hall (ECH) is located north of University Avenue West across from Engineering 6

PARKING
Visitor Parking is available in Lot B across from Engineering 6 or Lot Q for a flat rate of $5
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MAILING
University of Waterloo Art Gallery
200 University Avenue West
Waterloo, ON, Canada N2L 3G1



Images (left to right): Zahra Baseri, Petrocubical (installation detail), 2019. Photo: Scott Lee.



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Ivan Jurakic, Director / Curator
University of Waterloo Art Gallery
Driving: 263 Phillip Street, Waterloo
Mailing: 200 University Avenue West,
Waterloo, ON N2L 3G1
519.888.4567 ext. 36741
ijurakic at uwaterloo.ca
uwag.uwaterloo.ca
facebook.com/uwag.waterloo
instagram.com/uwartgallery

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