Ossington has been a mainstay lately (let the hipster jokes begin). On this fine street exists Gallery TPW at 56 Ossington – the destination for Eric Gottesman’s showcase for “Paths that Cross Again”, a human tale of how he came to know Tenanesh Kifyalew, a young and charming girl with an unfortunate terminal disease. He provides a recollection of his experiences bringing her about town in a white dress, he opens with a dialogue with her mother who has trouble hearing and understanding him. He brings a sullen story to life on stark white walls. It transcends just photography – it embodies a poignant tale of desperation and soul seeking.

And of course, as I couldn’t add any colourful writing in nearly as well as the abstracts could, here it is from the CONTACT Exhibit:

The exhibition is placed within the context of Gallery TPW’s history working with documentary photography and more recently within the field of politicized relational aesthetics–a set of artistic practices that performs and interrogates the social contexts of human relations. As such, the installation is based on acknowledging the complexities and complicities of working transnationally across difference and privilege. The figure/ground relationship serves as a framework for posing a series of questions regarding image/text, subject/artist and world/ institution. This exhibition asks whether it is possible to experience images on multiple registers simultaneously and rework such binary understandings of the image and its production.

Bless.

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