Past Exhibition

Glimmers of the Radiant Real

Katie Bethune-Leamen, Broadbent Sisters, Daniel Griffin Hunt, Sanaz Mazinani, Sandy Plotnikoff, Mary Pratt, Cole Swanson, Catherine Telford-Keogh, Xiaojing Yan
Jan 23, 2020
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Aug 16, 2020
EXHIBITION
Installation view of Glimmers of the Radiant Real, Photo: SITE Photography
Top Right: Katie Bethune-Leamen, A Third And Final Part: Peary & Ahnighito (detail), 2012, HD video, 16 mins 53 secs. Scored by Andy McCluskey (Orchestral Manoeuvres in the Dark).
Middle Right: Installation view of (In) Site, Photo: SITE Photography
Bottom Right: Broadbent Sisters, Midnight Forms (detail), 2017, HD video, 13 mins 20 secs. Courtesy of the artists.

What happens when surfaces glitter, gleam, sparkle, and shine? Radiance, that quality of projected light we associate so often with the marvelous and the modern, is subverted by the relationship between the quality of a surface and what it covers, reflects, or contains. Surface is the point of contact for the body, it’s skin and texture and touch. The glistening, shining surfaces of works in this exhibition manipulate the viewer’s perception of dimension through reflections and refractions, thereby un-forming the object and making the familiar strange. They layer the surface substances that gloss the world we know, offering glimmers of a radiant reality where light becomes, not truth illuminated, but something else.

Organized and circulated by The Robert McLaughlin Gallery, in collaboration with the Art Gallery of Peterborough and the McIntosh Gallery. Curated by Ruth Jones and Sam Mogelonsky.

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Additional Resources

Curatorial Video, part 1

Curatorial Video, part 2

Curatorial Video, part 3

Art-making activity: Build a Bug, inspired by contemporary artist Cole Swanson

Art-making activity: Extraordinary Drawing, inspired by contemporary artists The Broadbent Sisters

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