Laveen Gammie, Interface, 2023. Image: Kyra Kordoski

Interface

Open Space is excited to announce Laveen Gammie’s project in our foyer/stairwell space, titled Interface. Continuing Laveen’s exploration of the colour green-screen-green, alongside sculptural yarn tree forms, this work interrogates the production of world making, constructs of reality, and the erasure of labour. Other ideas that inform and influence Gammie’s current inquiries include destruction, surveillance, possession, property, 'clean' aesthetic, and preservation. This immersive installation invites audiences to consider what is given authority or power, and the potential for individual and collective world-making within the manufactured and natural labours of nature.

The work will be available to view beginning Saturday, April 1st, with an opening reception along with Tanya Lukin-Linklater and Camille Georgeson-Usher scheduled for Saturday, April 22, 2023, 3-7pm, to launch our Spring/Summer programming.

Artist Bio

Laveen Gammie is currently living and working on lək̓ʷəŋən and W̱SÁNEĆ land. Laveen works in sculpture installation; presently, with textiles, provisional supports, video, and the photographic image. They continually incorporate new media as different strategies are called for. Laveen's practice investigates cultural symbols, systems and signifiers of consumption, class and identity; uncovering the complexities that maintain their power through a process of reification. In Interface, she considers making visible the fabrication of world making, and the relations between land, gallery, artist and viewer. What does it mean to acknowledge the various labours of world making, to enter a space and through that entering, become a collaborator in the construction of its meaning, role, and purpose?

 Laveen was awarded the Luna Collectives Maker Award in 2020. She has been nominated for The Lind Prize (2019) and Sculpture Magazines Outstanding Student Achievement awards (2022). She's been featured in publications by Open Space and Casa Montego. In 2021 Her work was added to the permanent collections of The Art Gallery of Guelph, in 2022 She founded The Vault Gallery and in 2023 She received the VVALS and JCURA award.