Join us to celebrate the opening of Camille Rojas: System of a Gesture in our student gallery.

System of a Gesture documents three moving bodies in dialogue with the social function of childrens handclapping games and its sexual implications. In a workshop-like approach, these bodies revisit the familiar gestures, fluctuating between instructor, observer, and learner. By eliminating the suggestive rhymes that often accompany these games, emphasis is placed on touch, movement, and direction. Clapping sequences are first established in a structural, pedestrian manner that then becomes a guided lyrical quality of movement. The resulting gestures remark ones early encounter of their sexual body as well as the frustrations of understanding intimacy with the self and others.

About the artist

Camille Rojas b. 1993, Toronto; lives and works in Toronto is a multidisciplinary artist working with film, photography, installations, and dance. Shifting her position between camera operator and subject, she adopts a semi-choreographic approach to movement-making, documenting dancing bodies in public and domestic spaces that dissect concepts and emotions. She holds a BFA in photography from Ryerson University 2017 and recently completed a sub-residency through EMILIA-AMALIA working group at the Art Gallery of Ontario 2017.

About the RIC student gallery

The Student Gallery showcases the art and curatorial practices of Ryerson Universitys current undergraduate and graduate students and recent alumni from all disciplines. Rigorous yet inclusive, the program engages audiences with important issues through group or solo exhibitions of contemporary art and historical lens-based

media. Presenting seven exhibitions per year, the Student Gallery provides valuable, professional experience in the curation and display of artwork. The exhibitions are selected annually, following a call for submissions, by a committee comprised of sta members from the RIC, along with students and faculty members from the School of Image Arts.