FUN HOUSE features the work of 9 Canadian artists who play with artistic convention, both pictorially and materially, and challenge our expectation of reality and the objects within it. Utilizing age-old strategies of illusion and substitution, they transform the everyday—re-shaping and re-imagining it—re-creating the world around them. Vancouver’s Rhonda Weppler and Trevor Mahovsky cast cars in aluminum foil;  Toronto artist James Carl sculpts furniture in Styrofoam and Kevin Yates (Toronto) intricately carves banal objects in wood. Brandon Thiessen’s (Vancouver) installations take the representational, documentary function of photography to the limit, while Quebec artists BGL and Patrick Bérubé transform space itself—disrupting our expectation of the gallery, re-making it as a fun house.

Using the same artistic and conceptual vocabulary found in Kurt Schwitters’ collages and in Pop Art, these artists often bring everyday objects into an entirely new context, challenging us to question our relationships with the objects that shape our cultural and environmental connections.

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