OPENING RECEPTION THURSDAY, MARCH 5, 6-9PM

NO FOUNDATION presents

Zannie Doyon and Benjamin Verdicchio : Seemingly So

March 5-15, 2015

First in a spring series of OCAD U student shows.

For more details on exhibitions visit:

http://www.katharinemulherin.com/dynamic/exhibitartist.asp?ExhibitID638&ExhibitUpcoming;

Seemingly So is a duo exhibition by Zannie Doyon and Benjamin Verdicchio. As partners, Doyon and Verdicchio build their individual practices in concrescence with one another, producing work that sheds light on how their separate contexts have shaped their understanding of material, image, and narrative. Both artists investigate the influence of environment and culture upon modes of representation, though while Verdicchio's work explores how narrative is imposed upon materiality, Doyon's challenges how image is imposed upon narrative. Together Seemingly So addresses the presumed inherent qualities of their individual areas of interest.

As a result of her upbringing within the cinematic framework of Los Angeles, Zannie Doyon deconstructs the techniques and relationships of cinema in order to reconsider its function. In doing so, Doyon inspects and questions how cinematic narratives are presented, and represented, while introducing fictions that serve as markers for reality. As a result, her work features many forms of representation that stretch far beyond the presumed cinematic. Her work is a product of various relationships imperative in the process of making that between text and image, director and actor, and the audience with the given set around them.

Born in Montreal but raised in the suburban-country encroachment of Qubec's Outaouais region, Benjamin Verdicchio's work engages with the culture of nature. Verdicchio has invested himself into concepts of place, culture, agency, and the products of their entangled evolution. His installations include seemingly lifelike objects that emphasize material agency in relation to place. These objects playfully draw attention to their own precarity, for while representations of things that would, in the "natural world", serve as place markers, here they remain placeless placeholders.