Glamour & Vapours is a screening of video works by Canadian artists Lorna Mills and Karilynn Ming Ho that interrogate screen culture and our capacity for visual and sensory overload. Through a historical and contemporary look at visual culture and social media the artists point out the power that images and texts have to control and influence our perceptions. Glamour & Vapours consistently reminds us that we are highly susceptible to the fast-paced aesthetic virus that follows the spread of digital media platforms.
Karilynn Ming Ho will be presenting works including Love Is Just a Four-Letter Word (2014) which plays off dreams of love and Capital, both the ecstasy and economy of images. Her new work, For the Left Hand Alone (2017) addresses the split-screen between how we represent ourselves online and offline our online presence often doesn’t mirror the reality of our daily lives. Throughout the exhibition there will be 4 episodic screenings of the short film series Ways of Something (2014-15). Compiled by Lorna Mills it consists of over 114 artists responding to the conditions of artmaking in a post-internet age. It is both an art history lesson for the present and a playful response to the production and sharing of 3D renderings, gifs, videos and YouTube performances in the digital age.
This exhibition was curated by Derrick Chang
