Chris Curreri, The Ventriloquist (2019), silicone, resin, fabric. Courtesy of the artist.
23 June – 18 September 2022
Canadian artist Chris Curreri’s work focuses on the idea that we constantly contend with things outside ourselves and, crucially, with other people. These relationships create a network, a fabric within which we are enmeshed. To what extent, then, do we open ourselves to, or close ourselves off from this fabric?
Working across photography and sculpture, Curreri presents an expansive exhibition for Contemporary Calgary with works produced over the last decade, including a newly created large-scale installation.
Presented in partnership with the Agnes Etherington Art Centre, this exhibition explores bodily porousness as a form of vulnerability. To be a body is to be penetrated.
Chris Curreri, Christopher (2019), silicone, resin, hair, fabric. Courtesy of the artist.
About the Artist
Chris Curreri is a Canadian artist who works with film, photography and sculpture. His work is premised on the idea that things in the world are not defined by essential properties, but rather by the actual relationships that we establish with them. Recent exhibitions include: A Surrogate, A Proxy, A Stand In at Agnes Etherington Art Centre (Kingston, Canada), Thick Skull, Thin Skin at Esker Foundation (Calgary, Canada), The Way We Are 1.0 at Weserburg museum für moderne Kunst (Bremen, Germany), Sleeping with a Vengeance, Dreaming of a Life at Württembergischer Kunstverein (Stuttgart, Germany), The Ventriloquist at Daniel Faria Gallery (Toronto, Canada), 2017 Canadian Biennial at National Gallery of Canada (Ottawa, Canada), Compassionate Protocols at Callicoon Fine Arts (New York, USA), La Biennale de Montréal 2016 at Musée d'art contemporain de Montréal (Montréal, Québec). His films have been screened at: Image Forum Festival, Japan; Festival Internacional de Cine de Mar del Plata, Argentina; and the Toronto International Film Festival, Canada. He holds an MFA from the Milton Avery Graduate School for the Arts at Bard College.
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