Oakville Galleries announces its summer exhibition Rogue Planet by German artist duo Hedda Roman, opening on Saturday June 22nd. Following the opening is our Summer Party and the first program of Sunset Kino, Canada’s only outdoor, avant-garde film festival. All are welcome!
Hedda Roman: Rogue Planet
At Gairloch Gardens and Centennial Square, Oakville Galleries
22 June – 28 September 2024
Opening Events: Saturday, June 22nd, 2024
2:00 to 5:00 PM: Exhibition Opening at Centennial Square
3:00 to 6:00 PM: Exhibition Opening Reception and Remarks at Gairloch Gardens
6:00 to 10:00 PM: Summer Party & Sunset Kino in Gairloch Gardens
Hedda Roman will be in attendance.
All are welcome. All events are free. Join the ARTbus!
The exhibition Rogue Planet, by Hedda Roman, explores the complexities of fictional biography, origin, and identity through AI technologies. Central to this exhibition is Oldboy, an avatar and Latent Space Traveller, whose poetic dialogues bridge digital realms with reality. Oldboy's existence challenges more traditional concepts of origin and identity, reflecting the transformative impact of digital technologies and AI on our understanding of selfhood.
The exhibition invites visitors to reconsider identity in the context of digital narratives and essentialism, and prompts a reflection on how machine learning and digital technologies shape, distort, and reconstruct our perceptions of identity and reality. Ultimately Rogue Planet encourages deeper contemplation on the influence of digitalization on identity as well as the authenticity of our personal and collective stories.
Hedda Roman is a Düsseldorf-based artist mesh composed of Hedda Schattanik and Roman Szczesny. Interweaving cinematographic elements with surreal animation, literature, drama, sculpture, photography, and drawing, they create, among others, immersive video installations as well as computer-generated images. In their artistic practice, Hedda Roman aims to expand the traditional boundaries of art-making while reflecting on the perceptions, preconceptions, and contradictions that characterize our existence in the world. Solo exhibitions include Sies + Höke, Düsseldorf (2023, 2021), Salzburger Kunstverein, (2023), Kunstverein für die Rheinlande und Westfalen, Düsseldorf (2021), Sammlung Philara, Düsseldorf (2019), Julia Stoschek Collection, Studio 54, Düsseldorf (2019), Insel Hombroich, Neuss (2018), COMA Gallery, Sydney (2018).
Special thanks to Goethe-Institut Toronto in supporting this exhibition.
22.6.2024 - 28.9.2024
LOCATION
Gairloch Gardens &
Centennial Square
1306 Lakeshore Road East
Oakville, ON L6J 1L6
120 Navy Street
Oakville, ON L6J 2Z4
OPENING HOURS
Tuesday – Saturday:
10:00 AM – 5:00 PM
Monday (by appointment)
Closed Sunday + statutory holidays
Free Admission
