Join us for an engaging afternoon of art and dialogue as we approach the closing of Hedda Roman: Rogue Planet!
On September 25 at 5 PM, our Executive Director, Séamus Kealy, will lead an exhibition tour at Gairloch Gardens, offering insights into the artwork, themes, and ideas featured in our current exhibitions.
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 Planetencourages 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. 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).
DATE:
Wednesday, September 25, 2024
TIME:
5:00 PM – 6:00 PM
LOCATION:
Oakville Galleries in Gairloch Gardens
(1306 Lakeshore Road East Oakville, ON L6J 1L6)
PRICING:
Free Admission | Pre-Registration Required
