House & Home (2013)
Group exhibition at Campbell House Museum. Curated by Katherine Dennis
What makes a house a home? Built in 1822, the Campbell House is the oldest remaining building from the original town of York. Once a family home, this dwelling is more than an example of Georgian architecture; it is a site of heritage and a relic of personal and collective memory. Contemporary Canadian artists Cindy Blazevic, Zoe Kreye and Gwenessa Lam capture how the physical structure of a space contributes to individual and shared identities. Exhibited in the second floor ballroom surrounding the fireplace – the hearth, the symbolic soul of the family – this exhibition animates a space frozen-in-time, thereby drawing our awareness to the historical performance of "home" within the Campbell House Museum. Together the artworks offer open-ended narratives about the transformation of space into place, house into home.
Images from the Generational Living Rooms series: Gaetano, Rex, Jay, Clint, Jason, Drew.
