Circuit Gallery is pleased to present an exhibition of work by Donald Weber from his award-winning project "Interrogations," seen here for the first time in Canada.

"Interrogations" runs November 27 through December 20 at Circuit Gallery @ Prefix ICA, with an opening reception on Thursday, November 27, from 6 - 9 PM.

Please visit Circuit Gallery online to learn more about this exhibition and to see more work:

http://www.circuitgallery.com/exhibitions

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Weber spent seven years traveling throughout Ukraine and Russia in an effort to understand and show something of life in the post-Soviet era.

The exhibition features twelve large-format photographs of suspected criminals being subjected to intense interrogation in an unnamed police station somewhere in Ukraine. This powerful series is accompanied by a selection of smaller photographs, which serve as a prologue.

Having gained the trust and permission of both the policeman and detainees to take photographs, Weber, as third party witness to the unfolding dramas focused his lens on the suspects, the men and women and youth who for whatever reason are brought in for questioning and find themselves in the room.

We are unable to adjudicate guilt or innocence here. Any implied indictment, it would seem, is not of the people portrayed nor limited to former Soviet states, but rather of the very idea of "the system" and the larger abuse of power and authority.

This is a work which asks and invites interesting and important questions about photography and the photographic situation as much as it does about the interrogations themselves.

Interrogations is the third exhibition for Circuit Gallery @ Prefix ICA, a new presentation partnership where the commercial gallery is sharing exhibition space with the highly respected Prefix ICA in the destination landmark arts building at 401 Richmond Street West, in Toronto.

The exhibition is curated by Claire Sykes with a catalogue essay by Randy Innes.