Barmby’s series of eight diagrams titled Summer Abroad, for example, traces the daily circulation of commodities and information by mapping his delivery routes as a bike courier.
Rollins, meanwhile, focuses on Chinese shadow puppetry. Immaterial Remains is a series of four lo-fi shadow “boxes” that question the cultural preservation of performative folk art forms.
"Collectively, the works create immersive, cartographic, theatrical and photographic spaces for unexpected encounters between bodies and virtual environments, objects and storytelling, personal histories and fiction, the city and subjectivity," Janssen says.
IGNITION is an annual exhibition dedicated to an up-and-coming generation of artists. It’s a unique opportunity to present ambitious, interdisciplinary works in the professional context of a gallery with a national and international profile.
IGNITION 13 opens on Wednesday, April 19 at 5:30 p.m. at the Leonard and Bina Ellen Art Gallery (1400 De Maisonneuve Blvd. W.) on Concordia’s Sir George Williams Campus. (RSVP by email: ellen.artgallery@concordia.ca) Artist presentations start at 4:30 p.m. The exhibition will be on view until May 27.