EVA KOLCZE & JESSICA THALMANN: The Time Being
ANGELL GALLERY is pleased to announce the first physical presentation of The Time Being, an ongoing collaboration between Eva Kolcze and Jessica Thalmann. The exhibition shall be on view by appointment from June 16 to July 24, 2021, with a virtual artist talk available here.
This two-channel video installation includes lens-based media captured during the COVID-19 pandemic, with attention paid towards the sites, spaces, and environments visited and inhabited during the artists' time in isolation. Over the first 6 weeks of the project in the Spring of 2020, the collaboration was presented virtually, and was also extended to guest artists who documented their pandemic experience and artistic practice. Originally scheduled to share this work at the gallery in January 2021, the artists continued to collaborate in virtual space over our Instagram accounts as we held out through the second of three eventual lockdowns in Toronto.
Thalmann and Kolcze use their cameras to capture the world around them, from empty streets and alleyways to the hallways and corners of their apartments. The shared photos and videos explore how physical and social isolation has altered and sharpened their perspective of existing spaces. The Time Being is a space for both artists to convey the intimate details of their surroundings; from the cracks in the sidewalk to the patterns of sunlight on their kitchen wall.
The Time Being is generously supported by the Canada Council for the Arts.
The artists gratefully acknowledge the support of the Canada Council for the Arts.