Nora Curiston
Local(i)ty 2 at Gallery 2 in Grand Forks, BC
Nora Curiston continues her working methodology of pairing; in these recent works the pairing of the physical and the intangible. Wind is the source and concept of her current investigations. Wind is known as a kinetic energy of air in motion, and there is a poetic language surrounding this motion: howling wind, or the lack of wind; doldrums. The wind sock, traversing the interior of the gallery building, like Curiston herself, is searching for something, some air, some motion. Curiston suggests that the best works are the ones that least confirm our expectations as viewers.
The works in this exhibition are the result of the artist’s ongoing cultural production since 2012.
Artist Statement:
My work in this show investigates 'wind'.
Wind is of personal importance to me. A good wind always feels purifying. It comes close to 'spirituality' - not in any kind of standard religious sense - but in that it is an invisible thing that animates the physical universe. 'The Opposite of Air' was the final piece created for this exhibit. A rock may not be scientifically the 'opposite of air' but poetically it embodies the essence of the physical as it stands against the unseeable.
Nora Curiston continues her working methodology of pairing; in these recent works the pairing of the physical and the intangible. Wind is the source and concept of her current investigations. Wind is known as a kinetic energy of air in motion, and there is a poetic language surrounding this motion: howling wind, or the lack of wind; doldrums. The wind sock, traversing the interior of the gallery building, like Curiston herself, is searching for something, some air, some motion. Curiston suggests that the best works are the ones that least confirm our expectations as viewers.
The works in this exhibition are the result of the artist’s ongoing cultural production since 2012.
Artist Statement:
My work in this show investigates 'wind'.
Wind is of personal importance to me. A good wind always feels purifying. It comes close to 'spirituality' - not in any kind of standard religious sense - but in that it is an invisible thing that animates the physical universe. 'The Opposite of Air' was the final piece created for this exhibit. A rock may not be scientifically the 'opposite of air' but poetically it embodies the essence of the physical as it stands against the unseeable.