Tricia Middleton at Galerie Antoine Ertaskiran in Montréal
For her solo show at Galerie Antoine Ertaskiran, Montreal-based artist (born in Vancouver) Tricia Middleton built her site specific installation as a landscape doused of personal altars and mysterious clusters.
Many of the sculptures combine organic with synthetic materials and objects (sheets, beeswax, paint). Painting, sculpture and architecture are fundamental elements used by the artist to create her environments, suggesting a process of collecting, adding and assembling materials in multiple, fossilized layers.
The amassing of multicolored materials gets shaped into a «mountain», thus generating a specific aesthetics and practice. Time is crystallized and reveals a state of disorder, as well as an impossibility to let go of objects – the process of keeping things in stratified accumulation.
Marquis de Sade’s philosophy is evoked: Justine is the result of a long process of decomposition, where destruction is a dominant mode of expression, nature dominates the human being and might be considered as the very spirit of negation.
The exhibition opened with artist in attendance at Galerie Antoine Ertaskiran in Montréal on January 13 and will run until February 13, 2016.