Between the Legible and the Opaque: Approaches to an Ideal in Place

Curated by Adler Guerrier, “Between the Legible and the Opaque: Approaches to an Ideal in Place” proposes works of various media that incorporate abstraction as both a formal and conceptual framework to render perceptions of place. The use of abstraction facilitates readings of the process inherent in their making. This process involves elements that reference diverse notions of place – its colour, materiality, use of language, and instantaneity as landscape. The summation of these notions, a conversation between the work as a whole and its constituent parts, contributes to varying degrees of legibility and evocativeness.